Wednesday 17th March 2010
by Cody NoldenI realized today that most of my problems in life happen for one big reason: I’m not being true to myself.
Have you ever wondered why a teenager is such an emotional roller coaster? It’s not the hormones. It’s the lack of self-identity. When a teenager does something, he doesn’t know why he’s doing it. He doesn’t know who he is.
I occasionally find the same thing happening to me. When I get frustrated with myself, it’s because I’m not doing things the way that I know I’m supposed to do them. I’m not being the person I’m supposed to be. I’m not living up to expectations of sorts, and it’s frustrating.
To loosely quote Shakespeare: to thine own self be true, and thou canst not be confused when looking in the mirror.
Don’t be bugged Brandon.
The reason for that, in my opinion, is that the Self is always evolving, growing, learning, and changing. We can’t be true to ourselves at all times because we are in flux. The purpose of life is to always be striving to be better, if we make a decision that isn’t true to ourselves we learn from is thus becoming a new being. As difficult as it is to bite down on it’s a principle that once we grasp we have a better perspective on the learning curve. Does that make sense? We must take this into account when establishing who we are.
I agree totally with what Cody said about being the cause of our own problems. If I have a good grasp on who i am, and what is wrong and right, then i make a decision contradictory to those principles, i heap my own plate misery and then get to dig in.
The problem is you will never be able to be 100% true to yourself all of the time. That in and of itself bugs me.