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The author reflects on a high school group project where their overreaction during a disagreement escalated tensions among group members, ultimately ruining both the project and relationships. They learned that while frustration is natural, it is crucial to manage emotions to avoid harming others and creating conflict. This experience taught them to approach difficult situations with calmness and thoughtfulness, a skill they continue to develop.

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Day 1 Assignment

The author reflects on a high school group project where their overreaction during a disagreement escalated tensions among group members, ultimately ruining both the project and relationships. They learned that while frustration is natural, it is crucial to manage emotions to avoid harming others and creating conflict. This experience taught them to approach difficult situations with calmness and thoughtfulness, a skill they continue to develop.

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Day 1

Describe a situation, in which looking back now, you believe you


were reactive and your being reactive made the situation worse.

I am a very calm person since my childhood. Generally, I don’t much react in

many situations. However, I remember a situation of my high school, which taught

me that how things could go from bad to worse just because of my overreaction.

During the classes, our science teacher gave us a group project in which we had to

make some cool science experiments. All the members of my group started to

work upon it. Everything was nice until there were some differences in our

opinions. One of our group members were saying to make experiments with

burning chemicals while I was saying to make it on the base of our current

environment. Then he started to argue with me on this topic. Instead of taking a

time to chill and think about this, I got frustrated. I, unwillingly, used my strong

and harsh words against him without even bothering that how it will affect other

members of the group. However, it didn’t helped at all. Instead of solving problem,

it made the things more worse. A very simple thing was converted into a big

argument just because of my short temper. The science project we all started with

full excitement was now like a war between all the group members. Instead of

working upon the project we were more toward proving each other wrong.

Whenever, I recall these moments, I regret that how a project that could get turned
into success, was ruined just because of me. Beyond that, the relationship between

the group was now broken. We weren’t friends anymore. I wish I could have

controlled my emotions at that time. However, I have learned a lot of things from

this incident. I have learned that feeling frustrated is okay, but our intensions

should be to help the things not to hurt someone’s feelings. Reacting in anger could

be short-term but its effect could go wrong and ruin our relationships. At present

time, whenever I feel myself in a tough situation like this. I remember this incident

and instead of overreacting on things, I take a long breathe and try to calm myself.

However, it is not always easy to control, but I think it is also an important skill

that we should develop. We all have a moment in our life where we overreacted on

simple things without thinking twice; this was the moment for me that taught me a

great lesson. But I am grateful for this lesson. Now I handle problems with much

more thought and mind that could solve the problem instead of making them

worse.

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