Paste at least three pictures of you together with the person/people who brought

significant social changes in your life. This may include those who help you build your
self-esteem, efficacy, and contributes for a better development of yourself. Write a brief
explanation.

These people are the people who helped me shape me as a person that I am now
today. They are my junior and senior high school best friends.

My junior high school friends are the ones who helped me shape my view of society,
they are very smart for their age as they have matured early, due to their poor familial
relationships (to which I will not further elaborate). Even as a teen I still know nothing
about this world that I move in, but they opened my mind to the realities of the world.
That it has its imperfections that my naïve eyes perceive. They’re also the people who
helped me boost my confidence. They made me speak up and voice my thoughts as I
am once a very meek and submissive person, who is unable to say no to anyone’s
requests.

My senior high school friends are the people who helped me discover my hidden skills.
We improved our skills side by side, and to our surprise, there are apparent
improvements. They are also my confidence booster, as they helped me get rid of my
stage fright, though at times it’s still present.

Along this journey with them, I met my girlfriend. Although we came from different
backgrounds, we share the same values, beliefs, humor and interests. Alongside her I
developed my passion for music to which I never expected, because of that I learned
the hard way the difficulty of teaching. Besides this, she’s the reason I try to open up
more about my emotions, instead of just bottling them up. Not closing myself to people,
that it is okay to let other people help you, that it is very destructive for someone to just
give and not take what they deserve. This intimate relationship with her made me feel
that I am more important than who I think I am.

And of course my family, who is the base of this piece of art I call myself. They are the
first who taught me to be kind, patient, generous, and to be a respectful being. They
also taught me to be obedient to authority (in most cases).
Discuss this according to your perception and conviction regarding your ideal and real
self. Paste different pictures of yourself.

As a child, I visualized a perfect version of myself as someone who is big, strong, tough,
and can face any obstacles like a hero does. And as a teen, a perfect version of myself
is someone who can do almost anything, whether be cooking, dancing, construction,
anything under the sun. But now that I’ve grown and matured, I only want myself to be
content and happy, a me who is stable physically, mentally, and financially. But I am
completely aware that I have to work hard to achieve what I do want now.

Time changes ones perception, I see myself differently as time goes on. I often
compare myself to my past, thinking, is the me 10 years ago thought that present me is
who he wanted to become? Maybe? My insecurities grow bigger as time passes by, and
the desires of my past, an idea of my perfect self, haunts me. I am frail, I am hideous, I
am inept, I am nothing. But I did not let myself be eaten by mere words of doubt I
inflicted upon myself. I stood up for myself and faced acceptance, that I will never be
perfect. I will never be who I think I will be. I acknowledged my flaws, focused on my
strengths, and set up a path to accept the real me and relearning to love it.