Tension tug of war

The reading on “Basic Tensions” by Stewart and Zediker took me a few to read over to fully understand. There is a lot of theory and philosophical style thinking that was put into words for that article. I do agree with the ideas of someone “happening” to you and “standing your ground”. Finding examples in the blogs that teammates have posted was not the easiest thing in the world for me to do. The way that the authors described the basic tensions made me feel as though it can only happen while in person or over the phone rather than in someone’s responses to others thoughts. However, when reading my teammate Swabbies responses and learning’s from their “path” I did observe someone “happening” to them. Swabbies described where they went on this path and the different people’s posts that they read. The way that they responded to what they read on the blogposts made it clear to me that someone “happened” to them. The personal experience stories that were disclosed to Swabbies made him/her really realize that this was the best way to learn in this class. They say, “Self disclosure and experiences are the most effective ways to make the words real or rather to paint a picture of what you are trying to say.” Before reading the posts and responses Swabbies was “standing their ground” by having their own views and ideas but once each person “happened” to them their ideas changed. Swabbies brings up the great idea that maybe this is a topic that we can choose for our midterm. They say, “Seeing as that is what we are doing right now in our class, maybe self disclosure would be a good topic to select. While it may not be THE topic we select we will find examples of it while researching whatever topic we do finally decide on.” I too agree with this idea and I am sure there are plenty of examples we can come up with. Unfortunately Swabbies blog URL was the only one given in my group so this was the only example I could use.