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Assignment 3 Women's Well Being

  

Well Being

 

         I think the phrase “well being” means for a person’s own mental, physical, emotional, and relational good.  A person needs to judge for themselves what their own well being entails.  For me it means that all aspects of my life are thriving in harmony together.  My social life is complimenting my school life, which is complimenting my family life, and all of these compliment my financial well being.  When one of these issues isn’t successful then they all are effected. 

         When my mental well being is thriving I am not too stressed, don’t have too many extra things going on to worry about, and am intellectually prepared for anything.  When I am worry about little issues in my life I can’t give proper attention to problems that really need my attention. 

         When my physical well being is thriving I feel all around better about myself.  I look better, and I feel healthier.  I achieve this through eating healthy and working out.  I find myself to be all around happier, more content person when I am physically healthy.

         When my emotional well being is thriving I am content and not a rollercoaster of emotions and moods.  I find my moods to become more extreme the more my well being is under attack.  When I don’t feel emotionally content I tend to blow silly little things out of proportion. 

         When my relational well being is thriving I find that there is little drama between friends or family members and that all my relationships are healthy, non-toxic ones.  When I find myself involved in a toxic relationship I feel that my entire life becomes effected and unhealthy. 

         When anyone of the four aspects of my well being become unhealthy it effects all the other areas of my life.  I hope to continue to have a good sense of myself to know when one issue is out of place and how to fix it before everything else in my life starts to become unraveled. 

           

 

          I feel my well being is flourishing when I am most at ease with my life.  When every aspect of my life is heading on it’s steady path and not taking unforeseen detours through the tall weeds is when my well being is flourishing.  This truly means that school is going well, my financial life is in order, my social life is thriving, my family relationships are good, and I don’t have too much to stress about. 

           I feel that my well being was flourishing at the point I think it should be last winter.  Every piece of my life was coming together incredibly smoothly and without any complications.  I was mentally, physically, relationally, and emotionally healthy and happy. 

 

 

            I feel that my well being isn’t flourishing when too much stress makes me neglect the other important aspects of my life.  I feel that I am currently a bit too stressed out and this is affecting my mental, physical, emotional, and relational well being. 

            Every student’s well being, at the beginning of a new semester, is in jeopardy due to their added stress levels of the new school year.  I myself am trying to adjust to new classes, new schedule, new professors, meeting new people, working, socializing, and balancing it all.  Once the semester progresses a bit further I feel that my well being and moral will pick up just as it always does. 

 

 

     Response to Well Being Articles

 

Selma’s well being article was very similar to my thoughts on well being; this is why I choose her article.  I agree with her that well being is a state of “feeling stable and healthy in one’s life”.  I judge my well being on my health, school success, social life, and financial life just as Selma does.  Her article made me think about just how much I believe that well being is based on feeling comfortable in every aspect of my life.  If one of these aspects is out of place my over all well being is threatened. 

 

I chose Lizz’s well being article because I thought she had an interesting point of view that was both similar and different from mine.  I agree that a person’s well being is based on their mental and physical health as well as their feelings of being comfortable and safe.  Lizz made me think about how a person’s well being can be based on others perspectives and not just based on one’s own inner view.