Reflection 13

The passage talked about reinventing ourselves, this includes our self-esteem. I believe you have to have a major shift in order for you to really accept yourself as a person. At a young age we are taught to be careless, because we are still growing, but between our teen years until we are senior citizens we are judge, and criticized day in and day out. The self-esteem we manage can only hold on for so long until we manage to crack, but what about those people who don’t crack? What about the ones who know how to handle particular situations without having a mental breakdown? I believe those people have come to accept themselves as a human. The next question you ask is that aren’t we all human, yes, yes we are. But as Freud said to be a human we must be, a lot of people interpret things in different ways. Though I believe that in order to be a human you must accept yourself for who you are and what you’ve done, that to me is being, and to be is to live. Many people don’t accept the things that they’ve done because they have put it behind them, making whatever they’ve done become their past. But I believe you cannot live your future without understanding your past. People like to take you for what you are now, minus the bad and take in the good. But I’ve learned to truly accept someone you must take in the good, as well as the bad. How can you expect people to accept you, when you yourself can’t accept who you are? This is where reinventing ourselves come into place, we need to accept ourselves. We are the most self centered creatures on this planet, if we don’t think highly of ourselves, then who would? Your self-esteem can be managed by many factors whether it comes from within, or whether it comes from your environment and other people. Your surrounding has a huge influence on how your self-esteem will increase or decrease throughout the day. But that is if you let other people affect how you see yourself, the greatest power is to accept your self-esteem from within and you are the influence of your self-esteem. I believe to understand the self you have to listen to yourself, there are a lot of influences that can make you swing every which way, but deep down you are the one making the decision, and only you can decided. Also because you are making the decisions it’s you who will end up facing the consequences whether it is a good or bad outcome. When you learn that things shift, you’ll learn that they shift for your benefit, if you’re the one doing the shifting.