from what i can tell about life... you have to accept yourself exactly how you are. then, once you accept everything... you can change what you feel doesn't match. Accept being shallow and superficial, and then you can change it, if you do not want to continue to be that way.
but as far as accepting it goes... you just gotta say over and over "i approve of myself." "I accept myself" Give yourself permission to act the way you are.
"I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" This is a line from Demian by Hermann Hesse. The whole book deals with question and state of mind. It makes me think to myself are my promptings, that I feel right now as I type, from my true self or from another that has breached my homeland security and infiltrated my everyday way of life? What I mean is, am I being myself or am I being deviously persuaded in another direction? What is myself? I suppose it's just an idea like any other, set up to help define the reality brought before me by my senses. Am I not just a reflection of my upbringing and my society? I mean... what else can I be
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anonymous
September 24 2004, 16:15:25 UTC
I have a similar thing, but not exactly...I wondering still who i am, still trying to stretch out my skin and fit into it right. I don't know if i'll ever find a statifed answerr. It's hard, because everyone seems to have a plan for their life. and here i am still trying to figure out what to major in. kind of bites at times...but i'm sure i'll find a life or way of life eventually that will mostly make me eventually.
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Your statement reminds me of a line from Mrs. Doubtfire.
"do you ever wish you could freeze a single moment from your day and say 'this is not my life'"
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but as far as accepting it goes... you just gotta say over and over "i approve of myself." "I accept myself" Give yourself permission to act the way you are.
Real? it's just relative.
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