Mark Joshua Olimon

HRDM 1- 1

1.Think of a time when you felt you were your “true self”. What made you think you were truly
who you are during this time of your life?

The time when I felt my true self is when I feel the true love to the girl that I really want.
Because before that I have been in relationship that is not true because I can feel that I’ve really
love them that’s why I can play with their feelings that time. There’s also a time that I choose a
game more than my girl and I know that I hurt her feelings, but I don’t care, but all that things
that I always do change when I met my classmate Margaret when I’m in Senior High School.
When we are in grade 11, I don’t have a crush on her but when we are in grade 12, I just said to
my friend that Margaret is beautiful that’s why my friend push me to her. I don’t know why but
that is my first time that I feel that I’m in love with the girl that I want so to ask her if I can court
her and she said yes that’s why I’m very happy even she only said that I can court her. I do all
things that I can do just to get her yes because its my first time that I feel love and giving all my
efforts for the girl that I want, that I didn’t do to other girls when I’m in relationship with them.
That time I feel my true self and feel who I really am. But my first love is my first heart break
too, because Margaret stops me from courting her that’s why it hurts me a lot and feel what my
past girl feels when I’m hurting her. I realize all things that I have done and think Margaret is my
karma that helps me to realize that hurting other feelings is not good and I felt my true self that I
need to love others and not play their feelings.

2. Following the question in number 1, can you provide a time when you felt you were not living
your “true self”? Why did you have to live a life like that? What did you do about it?

From my answer in number 1 before I felt my “true self”, I felt first that I’m not living
with my true self because I’ve said that before I met Margaret that is my first love, the other girls
that I’m in relationship with, is I didn’t love because that time I’m to young or I just want to play
or I’m really afraid to be broken that’s why I’m in always go with the flow. Even you know that
you will not hurt because you are playing safe with your feelings you will know that you are not
really happy and not enjoying what really relationship you have. In that time, I feel that I’m not
living in my true self. That’s why I try to become real to myself. I try to take risk by loving
someone not going with the flow and playing safe to my feelings and I feel the real happiness of
loving. I realize that its ok to hurt and fail sometimes to get my lessons in life and not only live it
my comfort zone that sometimes you can’t find your true self in it.