Reflection #13 Understanding the self

Samantha Clarke
Reflection #13 Understanding the self

Understanding the self is a very complex process that many individual may never take the time out of their busy schedule to address. It calls for an honest judgment of who we really are and the maturity to accept who we are not. It is rather common for individual to wish they were someone else or to wish they were more beautiful of more athletically build. But, whatever the reason is most people allow their deficiency or lack to dictate what or who they become in life. Our self-concept and self-esteem is rather dependent on how we were socialized, this can very much shape who we become. Whether we accept it or not much of these attributes are as a result of culture, the way we were socialized by our families and the impact of our social environment. Though simple this may seems, as difficult as change is, so is it a difficult process to reinvent our-selves. But as we interact with our environment and with the aid of higher education, one’s perception may encounter a series of paradigm shifts, which may eventually leads to our transformation hopefully.

There are many ways through which we present ourselves to the public. Some of which are how we want the public to perceived us, how we are expected to be perceived and how we perceive ourselves. After reading this article I am encourage to reflect on my own life, something I often figured I need to do but for some reason I am afraid do so. It may be because I don’t want to go through the healing or fear is getting the better of me. At some point in our life it is important to ask and answer such questions as to who we are, where are we going and how are we going to get there. It is important to find who we are. Life can seems meaningless without the understanding of who we are and where we are going. As teachers in training, understanding who we are is rather an asset and one of the initial stages we should encounter in the process of becoming a teacher.