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    Glyzelle G. Mella wrote an essay on understanding oneself. The essay argues that fully understanding oneself is difficult because people are often blinded by their own biases. While it may seem that only an individual can understand themselves, allowing others to share their perspectives can reveal aspects of oneself that one does not see. Hearing how others perceive you, what they like about you, or things that annoy them does not make a person vulnerable but can uncover sides of their personality that they were previously unaware of. At some points in life, others may know parts of a person better than that individual knows themselves, so their insights can help uncover a truer sense of self.

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    Glyzelle G. Mella wrote an essay on understanding oneself. The essay argues that fully understanding oneself is difficult because people are often blinded by their own biases. While it may seem that only an individual can understand themselves, allowing others to share their perspectives can reveal aspects of oneself that one does not see. Hearing how others perceive you, what they like about you, or things that annoy them does not make a person vulnerable but can uncover sides of their personality that they were previously unaware of. At some points in life, others may know parts of a person better than that individual knows themselves, so their insights can help uncover a truer sense of self.

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    Republic of the Philippines

    POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES


    Sta. Maria, Bulacan Campus

    UNDERSTANDING THE SELF – ACTIVITY NO. 1


    NAME: Glyzelle G. Mella SECTION: BSA 1-1

    Write an essay on “HOW DO I UNDERSTAND MYSELF?”


    (Format: Arial, 12, 1.0 spacing, 1-2 pages)

    ‘The most difficult is to know yourself’.

    Other people may disagree but for me, I must say yes. Knowing myself is one of the
    hardest things for me. How do someone can fully understand himself, if we only rely on
    what we want to see. If we are blinded by our own biases and boxed with our own
    perceptions in life.

    They say that ‘it only takes you to understand yourself’. When I am younger, I once one
    of them believing that alone I will know who really am. As I grew older, I realized that
    the version of me imprinted in my mind may be far more different to the people closest
    to my heart or to the random people I have been with.

    Asking other people, how they perceived you, what they like most about you, or
    sometimes what are the things you do that annoyed them is not a bad thing. Allowing
    yourself to hear their thoughts does not mean, you’re making yourself vulnerable or
    being dependent to the you they know. Perhaps, it is the ‘you’ you did not know.

    Have you ever been told of something about you that sounds so strange and after some
    time you have realized that he or she is right? Maybe that’s one of the you, you failed to
    recognize.

    And at some point in ourlives, someone knows you better than you do. It could be the
    giving up you, yet there’s someone out there believing you can. Because your what if’s
    drowned you, what if I fail or what if I disappoint them. And in this alone, you will not see
    the you ‘who can’ and believing the ‘you who can’t’.

    Isn’t wonderful to see the you, uncovered by the shadows of your own. For you allows
    their light to see you, unveiled by the darkness of your shadows. And for me, that’s the
    greatest thing about life, when you fall short the light you need may not always come
    from you but to other people, if only you let them to.

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