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“The Good Old Days”

Jomari B. Tagas - February 2, 2021

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“Wish we could turn back time to the good old days. When our momma sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out.” Earlier in our discussion in Personal Development, we tackled about “encountering stress as a part of adolescence” and somehow reminds me of this song: Stressed-Out by Twenty One Pilots. Hence, the song talks about growing up and It’ll just stresses us out. It talks about from a childhood-to-adulthood evolution and how Tyler (the vocalist of the band) misses the good old days like how he used to be. Being a young kid seems to have no problems and just running around playing and doesn’t experience “stress, while on the other hand being an adult will just encounter a lot of personal problems but it is just how it used to be.

I reflected both the lesson earlier and the song and I find it very informative and important for me to know it. Stress, according to the PowerPoint Presentation during our discussion, that it is a “non-specific response of the body to any demand. It is your body’s reaction to certain pressure or challenge or situation whether physical, mental or emotional.” according to Selye. So it is just our own unseen battle that stresses us out whether its physical, mental, or emotional. There are some things that trigger my stress and it is all mentioned during our discussion. I oftentimes experience those kinds of stresses. About the song, this is how it relates me, in our discussion we tackled about stress that is likely to be part of adolescence and all I can think of is that despite the reality, I still want to go back to my childhood.

This paragraph is not related to the song but I just want to share through my journal. Acute stress, episodic acute stress, and chronic stress are the three kinds of stress and I have experienced the third one. I have a personal disorder: stammering or called childhood-onset fluency disorder. I often stutter when I speak. During my early days (elementary and junior high), people would laugh and bully me. The worse part is that they mock me. I carried that pain through out my journey in life and I swear to God it stresses me. There’s no cure for it.  That made me lose confidence, self-esteem, and even self-worth (the topics from Personal Development then interconnects). I question myself “why am I like this”. In my late adolescence, I still carried that chronic stress, I am still in a process of embracing it. I try to ignore negative feedbacks but it stresses me. It even bothers me sometimes. Everyday I keep on holding on and again, still trying to embrace it.

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“Smooth Seas Don’t Make Good Sailors”

Jomari B. Tagas - February 1, 2021

Daily Journal 4

The discussion earlier from our Personal Development subject made me think that dealing with adolescence stage is not a smooth sea to sail to. We face different stormy situations and problems we unusually encounter it during our childhood. It’ll be a rough sea to sail through the other side; and we need a bigger boat. Adolescence stage is a preparing-stage for our adulthood and it is normal and common to encounter problems through it. We are still learning and adapting to a whole new level of livelihood.

We commonly compare ourselves to others either in a positive and inspiring way or the other way around. I had lived that kind of habit honestly and the worse thing is I get used to it and I don’t know why. Physically speaking, I have a skinny body and I easily trigger my insecurities because I compare to others who had a perfect body. What triggers me more is when someone who already knew they had a nice, healthy body yet had a guts to rant or just simply speak up in front of me that they are “thin” or some words that describes me more and less to them. I practice myself not to get insecure; sometimes I overcome it and sometimes my insecurities consume me. But I didn’t stop to change that kind of mindset for my own good. Acceptance is the key to let go of insecurities. There are some other issues during my adolescence period that is being discussed earlier that mentions some of my real life adolescence issues that I encounter like physical concerns, peer pressure, distractions, procrastination, anxiety, and academic concerns and career options.

I kept on reminding myself that it is never easy to sail in sea because sometimes the ocean is unfriendly. This is my motto in life: “smooth seas don’t make good sailors”. But don’t compete with other sailors, just compete yourself.

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Sharing is Caring

Jomari B. Tagas - January 28, 2021

Daily Journal 2

This morning, we had a sharing-In-class about our first activity, which is “object that best describe you”. It was not an ordinary sharing, it’s like therapy for me. They made me realize that we, sometimes had an own battle to deal with, and by knowing them, it made me realize that I should be more likely to be sensitive to other’s emotion, mental, physical, and spiritual. Not just you who’s stuck in that pit but also others. In in bright side, other’s story as well were amazing and they inspire me. All of them, my classmates are commendable and had a special place in my heart since day one.

For my output, all I can think of is a drumstick. It’s one of the things that had many experiences I had: The gigs (day or night), my bandmates, my experiences, the memories, and but mostly, the fun. I find myself enjoying playing in shows. This reflects my life to it. There were hard times but we’ll overcome it together as a band. Since the global pandemic, I never had to play drums. But I hope and pray that I’ll be able to play drums again. It’s interesting to share that story to my classmates to also remind them that there are so many things that we love, being taken away from us for now because of this pandemic. I also share that story of mine to also remind them that no matter the situation we had right now, don’t give-up on your passion. It honestly helps you inspire through online classes and made you realize that “I didn’t ask for this, so I must fight for what I love the most). Yes, not just objects, also people.

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Coming Out From The Pit

Jomari B. Tagas - January 27, 2021

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          In terms in perception of yourself, it comes up with one common, powerful, and philosophical question: Who am I? Knowing thyself means finally coming out from the pit of the unknown. But, have you finally had the guts to come out of that pit? In our first lesson in Personal Development, it tackles about getting to know oneself and it opens me up that self-concept is all based on how you truly know yourself.

          Getting to know yourself will sometimes bring out the good in us or the other way around. Knowing yourself is like sailing on smooth seas, but are you prepared enough in times of rough waves before reaching your destination? The journey of discovering thyself will depends on who or what surrounds us. We are still learning everyday and it reminds us that conceptualizing thyself is how you absorb all the knowledge you acquire daily either from your friends, enemies, colleagues, parents, idols, and other things that influences you. Even life lessons will emphasize great impact in your life whether apply it or not. Finding yourself applying your life lessons, and making compliments as inspiration, you’re plotting your escape form the pit and start climbing.

          Throughout your journey since you already started climbing, it’s normal for us human beings to sometimes feel mixed up and hesitant about it. In knowing ourselves, it generalizes the thought of having a low self-esteem or self-confidence, and self-awareness. Knowing your inner state is how you overcome those things that we felt. Don’t self-doubt and think of it as a process no matter how slow or fast that is. Process is a process. It also helps us redirect negativity to positivity. So therefore, you’re halfway from the pit.

          If you still find yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually unstable during your journey, you’re slowing down from coming out of that pit. Not just other people’s words that drags you down, but sometimes our own thoughts or mindset do the dragging-job, thus, it’ll affect our multi-dimensional self .You need to value yourself more, positively evaluate yourself, and start to think yourself as an achiever not a failure; a person’s mindset will greatly affect your journey either you think positively or negatively. We all have our own demons and somehow, it’s uncontrollable. Since you only know your own demons, it requires strong will and positive thought to tame them. If you over-come those things, you’re almost there. Continue climbing out from the pit.

          Now that you’ve reached the very top and before coming out from the pit, all you need is a one strong grip, but can you do it alone or do you need a help from someone? Remember: No man is an island. You might fall back from the bottom of the pit. Knowing yourself also requires someone that helps you find yourself and what’s better is that you also help that person know his/her self too. Remind yourself daily that no matter who you are, you are worthy. Everyone’s worthy. Always have a clear and defined self-concept.

          I reflect what I’ve learnt from that journey that having rough times and feeling down and anxious is normal but don’t stay in the pit. The greatest comeback of all time is finding yourself start climbing again. I, sometimes, ask myself if who I really am. I still find myself falling from the pit but I always keep in mind that not climbing back again means that you limit yourself and giving up; you let the things that made you fall back from the pit overcome you. Earlier, during our Personal Development class, I figured out that I’m a “pleasers” type of person because I find myself having a low in internal self-awareness, yet having a high external self-awareness. As much as I knew based on the descriptions that were in the PowerPoint Presentation, I somehow relate to it and reflect myself.

@krishavanessa

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The Bridging and The Gap Of Digital Divide That Impacts The Society

by Jomari B. Tagas

The gap between individuals from the ability to accessing information technologies has a highly impact to society. It defines as an inequality among the digital natives and digital immigrants due to the gap of its understanding. Social media platforms are the stages of experiencing digital divide that separates different users or individuals. Due to today’s pandemic, technologies that relies on the internet had a major change of priority specially for virtual classes today. Digital divide also had a impact to virtual classes: students with lack of strong internet connections and students with stable and strong internet connections are one the examples of digital divide that we experience nowadays. It also occurs outside educational platforms with the use of information technology related base, relatively to today’s pandemic, countries with different socioeconomic backgrounds is also eyed for this digital divide; for example is the poor coordination of countries from the pandemic socioeconomically. 

The influence of social divide has a different impact to society but particularly, in an inequality way of gapping individuals. But bridging the gap of digital divide among individuals is possible and as a student, following the internet netiquettes, specially the first one which is “remember the human” because either we are digital natives or digital immigrants, we can still benefit the technology information. We can still improve our reliability towards the internet platforms depends on each other’s different cultures.  When the monetary difficulties of low infrastructures levels, helpless framework improvement, and bad quality of life/pay levels are tended to, digital divide will be lessen. Governments also influences some individuals and it refers to their impact towards the society either it creates a gap or a bridge. Learning the basic internet netiquette is somehow the key to unity. Traditional media and new media is another example of a relation between the bridge and the gap of individuals in the society. Social media platforms comes in different medium and digital divide may not be avoided but at least if we practice the basic internet netiquettes, it will generalizes to everyone and more accurately, it has a great impact to individuals. 

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New Media VS. Print and Broadcast Media: The Opposing Theorized Concept Between The Types Of Media And Their Interaction In Five Years’ Time.

By Jomari B Tagas

source: https://kdminer.com/news/2018/aug/10/editorial-cartoon-august-10-2018/

From the past eras, technology is worth a object to modify ‘future’ and over generations, its evolution starts growing. In the 21st century, new media had taken over the broadcast media by the internet and technologies. Traditionally, print and broadcast media were somehow theorized to be ‘extinct’ because of new media, henceforth, it took many advantages from the recent era of information. Since new media is generalized as technology and internet based information source, unfortunately, citizens from older generations that somewhat exposed to print and broadcast media, will likely to be not used to the gadgets and internet platforms. The transformation of communication service suffice comfort and stability among younger generations but a disadvantage to older generations. It conceptualized the fact between print and broadcast media were eventually unadoptable media to the modern technology-based new media, but instead, new media can adopt to the two medias. There are still advantages of the print media because books were still relevant and the flexibility of its static flow and for the people whom love reading and for the broadcast media, television is still significant to us when it comes to local and other types of news and for entertainment. 

The process of evolving and gaining more experiences to the new media will eventually come to its highest peek of enhancing stability and comfort towards the connectivity of the people and will apparently change. The interaction between the three era of medias in five years will still relatively continue to pursue instances and credibility to the people but new media had more advantage from it. Since new media is advanced that even reading books, attaining news, communicating tools, etc. had it all, this will bring us the duality of humanity: we will take more advantage from it because of its easy access to everything specially to mass media nor to not take advantage from it since it new media is the drawback tend to overlook the disreputable of its usage. In the progress, the types of media will somewhat tend to continue its compromising relationship either new media will replace the print and broadcast media or not.

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“Understanding the Relevance of Information Literacy in the Midst of Social Era”

by Jomari B. Tagas

In the social era, connectivity among others is basically attainable. The fact that in today’s 21st century, we can assure that technology has brought us to the world of transparency and exposure, which by means that is the some easy way to give and receive information. Technically, it has a greater impact when it comes to Information Literacy. The exaltation of the usage of social media has specifically intensifies the probability of being an ignorant user or citizen. Relevance of Information Literacy that we gather is for us to focus more on the evidence and the openness of the influence of media. It shows that the central point of understanding the relevance of Information Literacy will spark the minds of the suitable and legitimate of gathering right information. Over the times, it is practiced, the relevance in the world of internet. Since it is for everyone, then it enable us to be structured enough to any certain social media platforms. 

For us users, it is extremely important to understand the relevance of Information Literacy in the Midst of Social Era for us to  acknowledge the impacts of it. Socializing nowadays has a topmost prior concern of misinformation. We should be critically open to certain point in any social media platforms. Careless gathering of irrelevant information will simply spread to any social media platform accordingly to the reader’s will. If we continue to practice this kind of misguided usage of social media, we may apparently lead others to the side where toxicity and negativity are abundant. Informative minds like us social media users are most likely starve to information for us to be updated, hence, we should start being a responsible user and apply integrity for us to benefit the social media platform in a right way. We should know the relevance of the information that we gather in this midst era for us to detect a certain legitimacy and rather we should be analytically sensitive for able to circulate knowledge to the public either it is blind or not. 

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Media and Government: A Love-Hate Relationship

-Jomari Tagas & John Kristofer Rosal

The media and government has a different role to the society they are so essential to the humanity because they organized the society and spreading the information easily to the society. Government is the one who organized the society they are making the rules and regulations to the society, also they are civilized the society. Then media is a organization that who spreading the information easily to the society and media have so many ways to spread the information they can use newspaper, radio, television, magazines and the social media platforms to inform the people significantly. That's why they are so essential to the society because they are so helpful to the society and can make the society updated for any information and can make the society civilized. Then this two has a love and hate relationship and why this two has a love and hate relationship and what will be the effect of this relationship to the society.

Media and government in a love relationship is that government is relying to the media to communicate to the people or to the society, to inform that what government do to their community, and government use the media to inform their community if what is the latest information to their organization. To emphasize the media is helping the government to easily spread the information  that comes from the government and this is so very good for the society because society knows the information about the government. But media and government has a hate relationship and the reason is about to the new leaders that who role the government and has a issue to the one branch of a media, that's why government force to shutdown this branch of media and this is not good for the society because people needs a relevant information to understand that's why need so many media to the understand the information. Then the government showing to the society that they are good to the media  but in the reality they are buying some information in other branch of media to inform the society for making them a good government.

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