BEYOND FEELINGS.doc by roger

Author:roger [roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-13T09:51:39.776000+00:00

Roger Hu P1-C0261

Yet there is another sense in which others can know us better than we know ourselves. Surely the image we project to others is as much a part of us as our self-image. None of us can really know precisely how we "come through" to others. However objective we become, we remain hopelessly bound up in ourselves, unable to see our outer image apart from our intentions. It often happens that even our own deeper motivations are hidden from us. People who have undergone psychotherapy often learn something about themselves they didn't know before. When that occurs, what precisely has happened? One way or another the therapist ahs probed into those people's thoughts and attitudes (and perhaps largely forgotten experiences), learned something about them, and then has shared it with them. In other words, for a time, however brief, the therapist has had an insight into the patients that the patients themselves did not have. It's careless to judge on impressions alone. Many oversimplifications sound good.

" Give people a welfare handout and you make bums of them" is accepted by many people as a profound truth. Yet it is an oversimplification. People whose problem is not misfortune but laziness will undoubtedly be made lazier by receiving welfare. But what effect will welfare have on a responsible person whose situation was caused by misfortune – say, a man stricken with a serious illness leaving him unable to work, or the mother of two small children deserted by her husband? Surely in such cases welfare can be a temporary helping hand that makes the person no less responsible.

Similarly, the idea that " compulsory class attendance rules thwart students'

maturation" may seem sound to many college students. Yet it omits an important aspect of reality. Too many rules may hamper one's development, but so may too few. Rules requiring students to attend class do not really take away freedom to cut class. They only make the exercise of that freedom more significant. For many students that can be an added motivation to make wise, mature choices.

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