Let’s Check

How I view myself.

I viewed myself as an ordinary human being although with a lot of differences with others
and although sometimes sensitive to what may other people think and say about me but
I have my own views of the world. I believe that the universe will offer everything to us if
we only help ourselves and also, if we do not let the petty feelings of others molds us to
what they want us to become, I believe it because everyone of us has a different course
to sail. Also, I man the man who do not believe that in life we should always seek
happiness or should I say, striving to attain happiness or trying so hard to achieve it
because whomever that appreciate the madness and sorrow of life can truly understand
what happiness really is. I am not saying that we should suppress our feelings of
happiness when we are happy, I am saying that we embrace the share of happiness and
sorrow equally but without clinging for them both. When we pray for the rain when must
deal with the mud after. For me peace of mind is what we must truly achieve for once in
this lifetime. I am the man who believes in what our friend Socrates said “Unexamined life
is not worth living.”
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1.I believe every one of us sees ourselves from other people and that is time we feel
happy or upset and off course I am also a victim of than feelings. There are many
circumstances that I truly doubted myself, thinking that I am not good enough for this life.
In academic for example, off course some of the students when they get a low score
either in an exam or a quiz some of them will felt jealous to someone who got the highest
score in the class and I experience that scenario, when I felt of being guilty of jealousy,
and thinking why I’m not doing a good when job though I tried so hard and also I cannot
truly understand the school system, why their was only one exam when there are a lot of
skills present in each of the student, but I guess its always been and always will be. Maybe
that’s the problem, that I tried so hard. There so many circumstances but that’s the only
example I can share and it was long ago, freshmen years. Now I don’t feel so utterly so
upset about myself, I just let it pass and go on to the next exam.

2. I couldn’t agree more that sense of identity is the sense of life. Sense of identity will
define what I truly want and it will help me not only finishing this course that I’m currently
working on, but also throughout life, in any aspects of life. Identity is what makes us
human, though I can honestly say that I have doubts, many doubts about my sense of
identity right now but hopefully I will fully comprehend what am I doing in this world. When
I finish this course that I’m currently working with, well I think it will have a great impact
on my self-image that I am developing now, because I am not a smart person, and maybe
someday I can prove to myself that greatness cannot totally be made overnight. For me
it is greatness being an engineer someday, because it is a collaborate effort of me and
my parents.
3. As what I have read and comprehend sense of identity is important as the air that we
breath. For me sense of identity is our soul and the people around us will have a great
effect on our soul or our sense of identity. The things I learn about this module and about
sense of identity will serve as beam of life, because honestly, I forgot about it, I forgot
how important that we have a sense of our identity, not to just live in the world like a bird
in a cage. For the bird may forget that he can fly.
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1. In your journey to become fully aware of who you are, what influences did your
role models have had towards the following:

a. Career choice
My role model in my career choice helps we develop the willingness to learn and examine
the properties of life, because my role models in my chosen field are the inventors and
scientist that examine our world with different view. I chose for example one of my hero,
the electrical engineer and mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla, because he sees the world
differently and he has a great insight about the true meaning of the universe although
people won’t appreciate it at that time. And I think in terms of career or field of work he is
the one the I look up, because he is one of the great men who walk the earth.

b. General attitude towards self and others

The people around me and those who are really close to me are the ones who have the
great impact on how I view myself, how I examine myself and how I treat myself. Although
sometimes they make me upset or feel rejected but then that’s the way it works, you
cannot please everyone. Every thing that people say to us is neutral we are the ones who
give it a meaning and we must be careful of how we must comprehend on what they tell
about us.

c. Your view towards yourself

The ones that I look up high are my role models, and they help me build what can possibly
be made out of me.
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Advantages
1. You can have someone to turn to for advice – it is important to have a role model
for us to know what we want in life, although we cannot or possibly walk in the
same path as theirs but along the way we can also share the fruits of their labor.
Achieving this requires guidance because each one of us must be guided along
our way and then proceed to the ends, fully equip.

2. You will have the knowledge for the mistakes that they made along the way – if
you observe fully to them, then you can truly learn not only to your mistakes but
also to the mistakes your role model.

3. You become a better person – depending on whomever you choose to be a role

model, you must seek to be better of that person and although he or she is your
model you must also think for yourself you must avoid the obvious mistakes they
made and strive to become a better.

Disadvantages
1. Your role model may brain wash you – role model is essential depending also on
whom we are looking up so high, there are times that we can forget what we really
want and we lose track because we focus on what they want for us to do, even it
is not the way it should.

2. Your role model may make you feel little – we chose our role model because they
attain or do something or even we see something in them that we cannot or could
not possibly see in ourselves doing it and we must be careful about this, our role
model should not make us feel little, our role model should give us the courage to
grow and the enthusiasm of learning and failing.

3. Your role model may help you lose track of what you really want – although you
have a role model, because you want something like they achieve, but it doesn’t
mean that you will have a straight line in life because sometimes they can be the
reason that you will lose track of what you really want in life, and again you must
be careful of whom you chose to be your role model.
2. As a matured adult, how would you reconcile discrepancy between the influences your
role models have toward you, and your own view and impression of who you are?

I know people have different views toward other people and even sometimes they have
different view of their selves. As a matured person I must gain confidence in people,
respect their views about me (if they have any) and gain insights in what they tell me but
also, I must respect myself, I must develop a strong spirit towards destructive people and
an arms that is wide open toward loving and truly important people that surrounds me
around me.