Angel Curbelo
Personal Awareness Paper
CCU 1503 23
4 October 2012
Personal Awareness Paper
Core values
Growing up as a child I was always instilled with values from church and my parents. The values that I learned to obtain from both were core values that were instilled in me. These values were to be faithful, devoted, open-minded, trustworthy, and especially prayerful. I followed those values for a while but throughout my middle school and high school years I kind of strayed away from those values. Just like most middle schoolers I just followed the crowd and really didn’t care about values but what everyone else thought. I got into some trouble when I was in middle school and I was very extraverted. I would always want to hang out and be around people from school. I played on the basketball team which I loved and was very arrogant and cocky.
As I went into my freshman year I carried that same attitude with me and focused on the wrong things. I played two sports and gave a lot of my time to those sports ignoring all the homework I had. I even wouldn’t study for tests and I didn’t really care as much as I should of about my grades. After freshman year I spent a lot of time in church and I kind of went back to the values that were instilled in me as a kid. I started to change my attitude around people an I wasn’t as cocky as I use to be. Also I started to do very well in school and I cared about my grades a whole lot more. Something that I found interesting as well is I wasn’t as extraverted as I used to be either. I like to be around people and I attracted them , but I didn’t need to be around people. I started to like to have time to myself and just be in my house. I still played basketball and when I would go to practice I would be very extraverted with my teammates and showed that side of me. Towards the end of my sophomore year I started to wonder what my purpose was and what did I want to do with my life. I started to ask God what he wanted me to and...