Personal Reflective Writing #1

Khaled Ahmed Alqubaisi; H00247285; CEU           

Reflective Writing1.

                                                         My Personal Experience

   I will choose one of my personal experiences that I had almost 5 weeks ago. In the winter vacation me and my family went to our farm in the desert “liwa”, me and my family were having a great time together. My friend was coming to Liwa by his own and it was stupid to come to a desert by all alone but he wanted to come to see the huge dune I told him about, and he went there by himself and it was dangerous. When he went to this huge dune I told him about he called me and he said “I am going to climb this huge dune by my car, so I am going around the dune to climb it from behind.” I told him it was dangerous but he didn’t listen so he hangs up. While I am having a great time with my family, after half an hour my friend called me back and told me that he needs my help and his car couldn’t start and the tires were drowned in the sand and it was almost midnight, there was no one close to my friend but me.

 Well I had two choices to make, the first choice was to stay with my family and have a great time sitting around the fire, and the second choice was to go behind the dune and help my friend. If I stayed with my family and have a great time, my friend will stay alone behind the dune at midnight and he will get mad at me, and if went there to help him and leave my family I will lose all the fun. I chose to go there and help my friend to get his car get out, and we made the car get out after a few hours of trying. I chose to help him because that is what friends do, they help each other. According to my story it is Kohlberg fourth stage, because helping a friend is a great thing for example, if I had a situation I need to fix and I told my friend about the situation, my friend will might help me.

My friend learned that going to the desert is a stupid thing and dangerous and he wasn’t that stupid but he was so excited to go to the dune. In 5 to 10 years I will still think I made the right decision and my friend will remember that I helped him getting his car out, but if I didn’t help him he will say that I didn’t help him and he will keep reminding me that I did the wrong choice. I am glad I did the right decision because now my friend always laughs about the story and he is happy about it.      (469 words)