JESS Joubert

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JESS Joubert

learning activity 3 based on unit 4

8 Apr 2024, 11:42 Publicly Viewable

My networks of kinship in my life are pretty small but they have a huge influence on the morals that I have and the way I am towards other people as well as my perspective on life and on different situations.

The closets network would probably be my best friend Arthur, he is quite literally the first friend I ever made, we met when I was 8 and he was 9. He taught me how to fully be myself he shaped the fundamentals of who I am today. He is the one person I truly believe could never be able to judge me.

The second network that inevitably had a great impact in the amount of knowledge that I have today as well as the wittiness I have is my father. He is one stubborn old man who really doesn't like to be emotional or soft at all and even though that goes against my nature he has always been the wisest man in the room. My father always has a unique way of viewing things as well as coming up with easy but effective solutions to pretty much any problem. I guess it's because of him that I can survive on my own. He used to be a police officer and so was his father so one can only imagine the manners and way of life they were taught. My father always made sure that I never learned to never except things from people all the time because most of the time you get disappointed. He also taught me that things don't just come to you and work out perfectly you have to work hard to make things happen that's why I am here today being the first in my family to study. And finally, he taught me that the world is too flawed for us to judge each other and that respecting each other costs nothing.

 

Finally, as cringy as it might be my partner DC is also one of my close networks that ultimately to this day teaches me new things about myself. He is more like my best friend than my partner and the beautiful thing about that is that we are not afraid to tell each other what makes us happy and what makes us not so much. He teaches me patience and how to be able to co-exist with another person and keep my ego aside. He taught me effective communication and the amount of conflict that can be avoided by communicating, and honestly, he taught me what healthy love should be. I think without him I would not have been able to love as fully as I do today, I don't think I would know how. For me even if we had to separate paths later in life, I would never regret loving him and I would always carry the lessons he taught me with me every day.

 

These are merely the 3 closest networks I have but I have so many more people who love me and I am forever grateful.