Friday, February 13, 2009
It often fails me, my sense. At least that is what I think at the time. There really is nothing in retrospect that I wish I KNEW in advance, if I knew it all, I wouldn't do anything at all. My own experiences good and bad have shaped me into what I have become,including my lack of forsight. We are not born with for knowledge, there are things that are inborn but even those things we have to develop. A baby knows to eat, but has to be shown how to eat. Sleep comes natural but we develop good sleeping habits. These past few weeks I keep asking myself over and over why is it that I repeat the same things. I know there are things that I need to learn, need to still develop. I am tired of trying so hard for so long, so long for so hard, to meet myself half-way. When do I meet myself all the way? Maybe I have not even met myself yet.
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It all depends on your definition of self. Who it is you are trying to meet. Or maybe you are meeting yourself all the time, but just aren't recognizing it. Do you not see yourself in your children's eyes? Do you not see yourself in your mothers eyes? Do you not see yourself when you are out with friends? Scholars for a millennia have tried figuring out "self". It is up to the individual to do this. But could it be as simple as looking into a mirror?
ReplyDeleteSome people are not prepared to face the truth about themselves. When you know who you are, you may have to change; and some people just do not want to change because changing demands effort! Self-awareness requires honesty and courage ... to get in touch with what we are thinking and feeling and to face the truth about ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThe better you understand yourself, the better you are able to accept or change who you are. Being in the dark about yourself means that you will continue to get caught up in your own internal struggles and allowed outside forces to mould and shape you. How we see ourselves may be clouded by the feedback messages we received about ourselves from others.But how could anyone know more about you than you? They do not feel your emotions or think your thoughts; they do not face the issues that you wrestled with. No one could know you better than you! Therefore, do not let others look down on you
With the mirror test, devised by Gordon Gallup in the 1970s, we try to recognize that the individual we are seeing in the mirror is ourselves. Proponents of the hard problem of consciousness claim that the mirror test only demonstrates that some animals possess a particular cognitive capacity for modelling their environment, but not for the presence of phenomenal consciousness per se. Gallup's mirror test has also been criticized as logically invalid because negative results are uninterpretable. Prosopagnosiacs, for example.