Ancaja, Jameir Russ Karsten M.

MT2A

My ideal self is someone who can make his family proud, can be physically fit, has a lot of
dreams that he is working on to achieve, and a man who can be proud of himself. And ofcourse,
my ideal self is a doctor to help people.

How I perceive myself now is someone who is working to be my ideal self. I am studying to
finish my school, I am trying to discipline myself by working out everyday, and I aspire to be one
of the best doctors the Philippines has ever seen.

In reality, my real self is a person who is building confidence by living healthier, who tries to
focus on studies to make myself proud. In my world, I am a growing person who can be great as
long as I don't lose my insights on the way.

With all that said, my real self is far from my ideal self and perceived self. It is way beyond my
reach for now because what I see myself in the future or how I want myself to be is greater, and
better than I am now. Right now I am just a student, I can’t be proud of myself yet, my body is
not my ideal yet, and the road to making my family proud is in the vast distance.

To make more emphasis on this, I’ve been put in a situation where I wished I was already my
ideal self, someone who can make more impact on the lives of my loved ones. There are a lot of
times I wished I was already a doctor. A doctor who can make people better and not see what
losing someone feels like. I’ve experienced the bitter side of life where one loses someone and
my real self or who I am now can’t do anything about it.

In that situation, I knew I was far away from my ideal self. Because in that moment, my ideal self
would have done something to make everything better.