M/TH 7:30-9:00 AM

GED0109 SECTION - 4
SB 317-A
Santos, Tesslene Claire V.

“Embracing the Otherness, Embracing myself”

The most widespread and influential modern view approximately how we

can sense a connection with and develop problem for other human
beings involves diverse conceptions of empathy. Everyone has an identity but society
makes you choose what it is tied to. Being your true self limits you from being in
communities; Interchangeably, one must have both, belonging and sense of self.
However, it gives more than the other in exchange. Trying to be yourself and being
rejected by the community, teaches one that they must compromise the two thing’s tied
to identity for the other. A sense of oneness, though, is not limited to shared genes or
mirror neurons; we can feel one with others in many different ways like – our beliefs,
images, symbols and practices transmitted and inherited. I myself has something to be
fear on and that is all about a fear that might people will easily judge me in whatever
actions I do. In our society today, they rely on the potential to have
interaction with human beings in the main through sight. Even though I still agree that
knowing oneself is super important, I came to terms with much and yet, I wonder how
much more of that otherness I would have discovered when I lived longer.
I am now on that journey – thrust into it in fact and I can’t help but feel the
presence highlighting that myself still consists of feeling that order. I can see how
applying her theory can help those who like myself suffer from insecurities. I am over
conscientious of my personality and character, so much that I often get so lost that I get
distracted and don’t see what is really going on in front of me. I don’t participate in
reality and as a result, I miss the opportunity to actually grow and develop myself into
the person I want to become through these experiences. Ironically, by taking a breath, a
moment to simply ignore oneself, you allow yourself to be more present, more aware
and actually truly find yourself. And I think that is something I learned about myself.