We are nearing the end of Week 3 of Winter Quarter. The year started off quite sad, with a spike in COVID cases and a new mutant strain that everyone seemed to be getting, but Life Course Scholars has brought such light into my life. I had also been one of the many that COVID caught at the beginning of the year, which made me put my life on pause for about a week. School was online, and I had to take a break from the new volunteer opportunity I just started. I was not that sad about getting it because the new strain seemed very contagious, but I was sad that I couldn’t be making the connections with people I aimed for when going into the new year. My mindset changed the most once meetings with my fellow Life Course Scholars began. I have enjoyed everything about the course so far. In just three weeks, I have learned so much about aging and the elderly population. There is a lot about the world that I thought I knew, but I have realized that I generally had a few misconceptions about a lot of things. For one, I always thought of aging as a one way street, where being born was the peak of all experiences and growing old just led to a deescalation of events. However, after listening in class as well as reading the first half of Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland, I came to a new realization that life is continuously evolving. Everyone will have random, but significant life events come and go throughout their whole lives, and nothing is set to take place during a certain time frame. This has brought me to enjoy more of the present lately instead of dwelling on the past and even the future. I hope I can keep these new lessons with me throughout the rest of my life and share it with the people around me. Although our class is online right now, I have enjoyed listening and getting to know the cohort with the activities we have done. I hope to be able to share more memories with everyone when we see each other in person!
Mariyah Shad
2/22/2022 01:02:48 pm
Hi Jasmine :)) Really loved the way you described your new life perspective! Life really is continuously evolving and flowing and your description of everything you experienced with COVID is a great example of that. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Jasmine MounphoxayJasmine Mounphoxay is a Global Health major from Anaheim, CA. She is interested in dance and Archives
March 2022
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