Monday, July 26, 2010

Make a YOU turn.

When we are asked, "Who are you?", What is our response? "I am a mom," "I'm a doctor", "I live in Costa Rica.", "I'm studying psychology". Often the answer is not who you are, but what you do, or your social position. etc. ... we don't answer properly because we don't really know who we are. We've probably never thought about it. & yes it is hard to know who we are, since we are living beings, we are constantly changing.





Nonetheless we are the sum of our skills, talents, wisdom, experiences and the way we perceive things. I do encourage you strongly to get to know a bit of who you are to be able to live happily and fully, because you must know what achievements will make you proud of yourself, you must know who you are to choose a partner wisely, to know what kind of job will make you productive... basically for every component of your life.


Now, there's a guy named Viktor Frankl (I <3 him), and he wrote the following:
"[Today] no instinct tells [man] what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism). "


So today I just wanted to encourage you to find who you are... and think "am I doing things because of other people or are they what I really want?..." I'm avoiding you a feeling called emptiness and worthlessness, eventually if you don't do what makes you -you then you will feel like your life is worthless and that you've wasted it.


In other words make a you turn today :)

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