So I was on Facebook the other day and I read something very interesting in someone's status message. In a nutshell it was saying that as humans we don't really know ourselves and, when we want to know or find out more about ourselves as persons we ask others.
I immediately thought about it and looked back at instances in the past when I have asked someone (whose opinion I valued of course 
How well do we really understand ourselves as persons and are we able to see ourselves in the "right" light when it matters most? Do we hold firm to the core of who we are in spite of adapting to changes. Or is it that the core itself needs to be changed?
If you really know yourself, do you need to ask someone else what they think?
Is self-comprehension really like a trip to the doctor? How valuable is that "second opinion"?
If only self comprehension was as easy as a trip to the doctor...
ReplyDeleteI think tho that the second opinion is only as valuable as its source Being that whether or not it is solicited it still exists...
Actually, I think it's ok to find one solid set of core values and then just work everything around that. This constant shifting and turning with the tide gets old fast and is pretty darned frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI find life is tons of fun and stability if you just make up your mind and stick with your decision, unless you get a VERY good reason to change. Then you make the decision to change and stick with the change you made, and so on and so forth...
I try not to be double-minded. I don't doubt who I am, I just decide and let the world see me and react. Live like you're a legend (cause you are, we all are). No itching. No worrying bout everybody else. Just live. Straight.
My decision is that my one life is MINE! I refuse to make the mistake I've seen people make for centuries and give their lives away by conformig to everybody else's expectations. I left that crap at high scool, and I don't want it back! There's freedom and true liberty in self-affirmation. And I aint stupid or delusional. I'm rational. I know when I need to get it together. I know when I'm wrong and need to back off. I know how to take correction. But outside of those spheres where I genuinely am wrong, no little critic can get to me... My life and time too precious!
So... yeah, my two cents on that issue... And I know I could jus be young and foolish, but at this point, this is how I feel. My life is mine, dammit, so let me live it the way that gives me greatest peace and pleasure... End of story.
And on the matter of a second opinion, personally, I never ask (cause I kinda not concerned, but...) if I as going get a second opinion on me, it would be from somebody with sense (well duh!) and who knows me long enough- like my parents, who will give it to me straight and honest. Next to God and me, they know me longest, so their opinion counts.