The nights we stay home and spend some time by ourselves are the times some of us do the most thinking. The times we do the most exploring of what's inside of us and what gives us our identity. It's times like these I look back and see what happened to me recently and analyse these memories. See what went wrong, why, and what i should avoid in the future. These memories are not only what makes us who we are but they also help us improve and take us one step further on the way to discovering our true identity. A way that seems not many individuals are willing to walk which can only be interpeted as arrogance.
In our days, a person who has a very self assured identity is regarded as someone who's discovered his inner self and usually emits confidence and strength. -But is this really the case?- for the line seperating confidence and arrogance is obscure sometimes. An arrogant individual won't bother going through this inner exploration, won't reflect to their past and won't look to find what went wrong with situations that decayed. The question arises as to how many of these individuals are out there.... The answer could probably be hinted by a few character traits... How many people wonder when they're doing the right thing and when they're not? How many are so strongly opinionated that can never accept other opinions without argueing? How many after a fight are looking to boost their ego, and are only intersted in getting the last say instead of actually working things out? The answer to the original question is probably an extremely scary figure. There are some questions in life we're never sure of the answers (i.e. am i doing the right thing? do i treat properly the people around me? what would have happened if i had handled this in a different way?). What saddens me the most is meeting so many people that never ask themselves these questions and probably never will. And i ask here how arrogant can one be to have never bothered with the above questions?
The truth is that every single experience in life changes us for better or for worse. The key for this change to be better and not worse is this inner exploration that so few of us actually do. The way to becoming a better person is a neverending journey through life. A true identity is something that is discovered daily and never something that has been figured out. I would never be so arrogant as to say I know exactly who I am
In our days, a person who has a very self assured identity is regarded as someone who's discovered his inner self and usually emits confidence and strength. -But is this really the case?- for the line seperating confidence and arrogance is obscure sometimes. An arrogant individual won't bother going through this inner exploration, won't reflect to their past and won't look to find what went wrong with situations that decayed. The question arises as to how many of these individuals are out there.... The answer could probably be hinted by a few character traits... How many people wonder when they're doing the right thing and when they're not? How many are so strongly opinionated that can never accept other opinions without argueing? How many after a fight are looking to boost their ego, and are only intersted in getting the last say instead of actually working things out? The answer to the original question is probably an extremely scary figure. There are some questions in life we're never sure of the answers (i.e. am i doing the right thing? do i treat properly the people around me? what would have happened if i had handled this in a different way?). What saddens me the most is meeting so many people that never ask themselves these questions and probably never will. And i ask here how arrogant can one be to have never bothered with the above questions?
The truth is that every single experience in life changes us for better or for worse. The key for this change to be better and not worse is this inner exploration that so few of us actually do. The way to becoming a better person is a neverending journey through life. A true identity is something that is discovered daily and never something that has been figured out. I would never be so arrogant as to say I know exactly who I am
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