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I think everyday no matter what I am doing, I am always learning. Scientists have said that humans have a natural desire to learn. Of course, a majority of that the time I’m learning in the classroom because that’s what we come to school to do. However. a majority of that time I’m learning as a student. To be able to learn as a human being is an entirely different experience for me. Learning as a human is something that I enjoy doing and it’s often something that I want to do. During this project I’ve learned a lot as a human to better improve myself.
One of the first lessons I’ve learned through this project was that sometimes things can be blessings in disguise. An example of this when I had to do my interview with a lady who volunteered for SF Suicide Prevention. Her brother committed suicide, and she said that it was out of the blue. She said that her friends started to come to her about their suicidal thoughts and she felt she needed to do something about this issue. She now works for SF Suicide Prevention and is majoring in psychology. Her brother dying was a tragic event in her life, but it brought her discrete blessings. It blessed her with a major, a new cause in her life and blessed her with a major, a new purpose in her life and an opportunity to help others. Therefore blessings can come in weird ways.
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Another lesson I learned is that life is not going to be happy all of the time. During research I was talking to my mom about depression and suicide. I told her that the woman told us that we have more suicides than homicides in the U.S. She showed me a quote from a lady who immigrated, and she said that Americans are the only people I’ve met that feel life should be happy all of the time. this really opened my eyes to why homicides are more publicized and glamorized. We’d rather show someone killing someone else, than themselves. I realized that life doesn’t have to be happy all of the time, and we’re gonna have bad days.
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This project was a very liberating and eye opening experience. Not only did I learn more as a human, I learned how to learn as a human and student at the same time. When learning about suicide in the U.S. as a student I learned that there are 38,000 suicides per year and 18,000 homicides and ignores suicides to an extent. I learned how to learn two ways during this project.