Kevin Galarza 0816866
Prof. Lori Talarico IST-123-005
Write about what you've read and share what you've learned; how you can relate to the
author, and how you can apply any of this information to your own life.
PUT IN PERSPECTIVE
by Kailen Krame
According to what I understood, you have to start by thinking what you want to change
and make a list of that same thing, and not necessarily focus on whether it's a good thing or
something bad that you want to change, but to write what comes to mind.
We have emotional and circumstantial problems and we can decide how to react to them
and instead of complicating our lives, we can see it from another point of view and react in a
positive way to such an extent that it does not affect you. For example, something happened
recently to me at April Fools. My brother made a heavy joke to me but instead of getting angry I
saw it from a positive point of view and laughed at the situation, as I didn't earn anything by
getting angry with him. And that is the way how I applied this information to my daily living.
We need to change the perception we have about what happiness really is or what we
think is its source. Whether your circumstances, material or personal objects. We have to think
about how we feel whether we are happy or not and what has happened in our daily life to find
the answer. So, based on the answer we must identify whether our happiness comes from
something material, from a person, feeling or external circumstances.
What I think is that if we allow these external factors to control how we feel, we will
never be truly happy. Although they may seem important, they are things that temporarily go
through what relate external factors to happiness, it would also become temporary. Therefore, we
