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Human Development Reflection

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Human development is a life-long and ongoing process, now that I am already a 20-year-old university student at CUHK, it may be the best time for me to review and trace my own personal growth and development. Not only that “the unexamined life is not worth living”, but more importantly as an adolescence as well as a university student, it is very important to trace what shapes up the current “me”, why am I like this now. Through this precious opportunity reviewing myself and self-exploration, I hope that I can make better decisions, as well as to review and (re)set my current goals and ultimately live a more productive life in the future by understanding myself even better, before moving on to the following life stages or social roles.

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There was a time when I was studying in HKBU that I felt I had moved from the preoccupied type to a more secure type of person. Now that I review it, I would describe that I had enjoyed my best period of time in my lifetime in HKBU, especially that I got to obtain several close relationships there. The people I met there were genuine and so that I don’t have to worry others not value me as much as I value them, I didn’t have to worry how others view me. Also, another important component of attachment theory, the close relationship got to maintain and even reinforced because of the small school campus and that it is very easy to bump into each other and eat together. Using the attachment theory again, such genuine attitude of people there including students and even professors, and the close relationship makes my time in HKBU enjoyable by fulfilling my unfulfilled security need. In other words, this also represents that I was not able to obtain close relationships in CUHK yet as I can before, and sadly, this became why insecurity came back as my current characteristic

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