Life Compass

Maria Victoria DiMario

Prof. Pittmann

Ingl 3011 - 402

15 November 2018

Life Compass

The total score was 248 out of 288 which averaged out to be 10 (rounded down from 10.3) which is funny because if you round out each individual area my average was three for all of them. The exact numbers I got were: 2.6 for awareness, 2.54 for physical and 2.58 for mental and emotional. It makes sense that mental and emotional have the same average because I feel like they are pretty similar in my mind. In reality and when looking at the pie chart below, the areas were all pretty close in number. I think, besides my numbers being the same, this might of been a similar case for others because the range of numbers was small. There was only 1, 2, and 3 and there is no problem with that because if there were a longer range people would probably spend more time trying to figure out what exact number correlated with how they were feeling.  

I’m a little shocked awareness was the highest because I thought it would be the lowest number since I felt that it was a little difficult to understand how exactly I would feel aware or spiritual. When looking back at my reasoning for why I felt a three belonged there I noticed if I was feeling awake, particularly good or had a three for another area I would put it for awareness as well. Another thing that surprised me a little is how happy I would be even after writing a journal entry of all the work and things I needed to do that day. My lowest score was physical and I know it was affected by the temperature of the classroom which was always freezing and occasionally I would get hungry at the time of the class. I know the other two areas (mental and emotional) were affected by upcoming events in both good and bad ways. It would be bad if I had a lot of work or an exam coming up and good if I was doing something with a friend of my family.

I already knew I was a generally happy person but this assignment confirmed it. What I did learn as a student is that when I’m productive with my school work I feel amazing and energized but I also learned that when I have a heavy workload with homework, exams and quizzes it makes me feel awful. In general, I learned a couple other things that make me happy and since I know those things know I can try to do or include them in my life more often so I can hopefully live an even happier life.