Joy affects the way a student understands the lesson teachers are training them on. If the students are sad all the time, they will fail to concentrate on the studies; this is because more time will be used thinking about how to overcome the sadness and depression they are suffering off. Joy affects the life and performance of the student, and all students have to work to be joyful. It’s through joyful interactions that we can create an excellent learning environment for the teacher and the student. In this work, I will make a reflection on joy as a domain that I need as I grow in all spheres of life, especially academically.
Being Joyful
Being joyful is a domain that I am working on as a student because it affects me positively; I feel bad when I am not happy and joyous. I remember one day I was feeling unwell and a friend of mine, and a classmate insulted me of something that disturbed me much because all the time I saw my class, I remembered what he had said about me. This classmate of mine was cynical about life, unlike the others in the class who are positive. To ensure I maintain this domain; I avoid those people and classmates who are not positive about life; this is because those that are negative about life speak of issues that are not geared towards achieving something in life.
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The other thing I do to keep this domain is to follow my mentor and his guidance; he has been very instrumental in my life. I can remember a time when I was the weakest performing student; these were the days when depression had crashed me deeply, and life seemed to be hard and not a feet place for me. I also do what I love most to keep being joyful; this is because something sturdy and hard to do. I don’t like losing or being defeated I always try my best when I fail to get even an appreciation of the little efforts I have done it discourages me as well crushes me from trying another time.
There are consequences I experience when I don’t keep the joy my friends have known me for; sometimes, they think I am sick, and they want to stay closer to understand what could be affecting me. My teachers are affected negatively, especially my mentor, who has been of great help is adversely affected because I have to remain silent. Some of my friends don’t come to discuss classwork when they realize I am not happy because they know I will not be contributing.
Another consequence that I experience is lack of appetite; I can only eat food when happy. We all eat together as a family in the evening and morning, and when I am not glad, I don’t like talking with people because I am not careful with the answers I might give to the questions they might ask me. My parents have played a role in helping me overcome sadness, which used to crush me in school and off school.
I can remember it was worse when I was young; there was a time I did not perform well in my examination and was ranked the worst grade. I could not link the connections I had with the category; if it’s doing all the assignments, I will finish and submit on time, and the teachers loved me for this. The teachers were surprised that I could not perform well in examinations; with my poor memory, they could have imagined someone was doing my assignments; both the homework and the classwork assignment, but this was not true.
Being sad was triggered by different factors, both the external and the internal factors. The internal factors include the fear of failing an examination, fear of disappointing my parents, relatives, and close friends. The external factors included the negative comments from some of my classmates which were not structured to help me to focus on my dream I felt like I lost it all and could not entertain such because I knew what I wanted. Through growth and development, I have some strategies that help me keep up with this domain.
The first strategy is that I have narrowed down to friends I share common goals and those that have the same struggles as mine. After all, it’s our dreams that are varied; we go to school to make our dreams real, something, if we are not careful others, might snatch them from us and help us to lose focus. The other strategy I have come up with is focusing on my hobby, which is doing charity work, seeing others happy, and inspiring them that there is a bright life after they make efforts. I feel joyful speaking to the hopeless and young students in the lower grades who I positively help to deal with different situations that they face.
My actions were not consistent on how I wanted to act because, as a young person, I will set goals and targets, which sometimes demanded that I sit down for a more extended period, which I didn’t. This is because I was destructed with external and internal factors. This makes sense because I now feel I can keep my joy and handle different situations that I face, and in the future, I will have discovered more about myself; I will better engage in cases because I have the experience.
Through learning about this domain, my joy has helped me focus on effective communication and being ethically understanding that there are things I can do that will affect those around me and me. Those I surround myself with can do things that concern me positively or negatively. I have gained practical skills to enhance and instill joy to others, and empirically influence people positively to concentrate on beneficial life matters.
