Alonzo, John Raymund S. Understanding Self Mr. Fernando Lopena Jr.

Philosophy I Philosophical Reflection June 28, 2019

Definitely, people are in a perilous journey as they traverse the world bombarded with
preoccupations that may lead them astray and away from which they must be going—examining
a life filled with complexities and sophistications. Such profundity is but one of the things
necessitated by those people who are excavating meticulously the self that which has long been
forgotten because of the oblivious state of the person to which it inhabits. Consequently,
deepening the desire to eradicate distortions of the meaning of life, people yearn for a solution
that can open a pavement where they can emancipate themselves from peeping just from a
keyhole. Big Fish is a movie filled with mind-boggling statements and symbolical ideologies
that, whoever may encounter it, will surely see life in a different perspective. Having such a
groundbreaking paradigm of shift devised an attitude towards how life must be lived. Questions
like, “Is it to be?” or “How to be?” make up an elucidated enthusiasm to know the self. Truly
affected by the intention of the movie, that is, to introspect and to study comprehensively the
beauty and the tendency of the mind to construct a way of how the self may reveal itself to the
human person, the person is left into a vast journey. This life-long search of the self clarifies
things that stay oblique hindering the self to get out of that which manipulates its reality. The self
to be known must be examined—examination of the life that has been known is just a speck of
the bigger knowledge that can never be grasped by the human person. Innumerable paths may
not be the applicable and relevant path but, these should never be thrown away for things that
have been part of those paths although may be seen as detours taught things that are surely not on
that which is the real path. Also, the human person must use his/her rational state so that he/she
may get rid of dispensable emotions leading to a quicksand of regrets and irrationality.
Sometimes, we will meet people who are there not to last forever. But, there are those who must
stay and be part of a deeper and intimate relationship. Holding the belief of giving the benefit of
the doubt will also be a part of how the world will conspire with everything just for us to attain
what we mostly pine. Enumerating the expected contortions do not assure us of the achievement
of the self because as we try to examine and be endeared within ourselves, we end up knowing
just the “how” and not the “who” we are. All aspects of the self will show themselves either
simultaneously or even in a way in which they are never expected to happen. Therefore, the
human person should always be a sponge that may anytime absorb and assimilate the things that
will spring about for the betterment of the self—at the end the self goes back to the Being.