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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

De Leon, John Carlo, H. BSEE 1A

UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

What is Understanding the Self? How will this subject help me? Is this subject

is important to student like me? Can this subject make me understand myself? What

strategies I will do to understand myself? What will happen to me when I study the

Understanding the self?

Understanding the self is all about knowing yourself truly and how will you

manage to control yourself towards something it also helps to make self better and

reproductive. This subject Understanding the Self helps us to improve our physical,

emotional, and spiritual self. It can also help us to minimize and maximize our

strength and weaknesses. Also in this subject can enhance our capabilities to do

such things and it help us to make us stronger and to believe in our self. In this

subject I really understand what is happening to me and how can I handle it. It helps

me to control my anger my sadness and my happiness. Yes I can’t say that I fully

understand myself but I’m in the stage of knowing myself better and I am happy that

I can understand myself when something is happening to me. It really important to

know yourself because everyone in this world has a different personalities and we

must know it and control it to make our life simple and happy. Everyone in this world

is unique in their own ways, everyone’s personality is something that will make us

unique and authentic. Being true to ourselves make us stand out to other because if

we know ourselves better we can’t easily affected to other people and that is good.
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I realized that I am not that very aware of the things or the information that my

parents have. Answering the first part was easy that it all contain the personal

information as a human. The second part was uneasy, that it makes me think beyond

the normal thing I used to think of. Since then I grew up, I do things that I can do and

all that matters, since I know that my abilities are those. Then as the discussion

arises, I’ve heard that, “it is important to know the limits of the self so that one knows

what is capable of doing and what one is not”. The real meaning of knowing thyself,

then is a requirement for self-moderation, prudence, good judgment, and excellence

of the soul. In our lives anything that is too much is bad; one must learn to balance

things in life in order to maintain the quality of each occurrence or relationship or a

thing. In the concept of knowing one’s self, one should evaluate the things in his/her

life in order to not gain this concept that Socrates has said that an unexamined life is

not worth living. Throughout the discussion that did, my mind just stuck on the

moment I think of the, “not worth living”, words. I just think of how I will enjoy my life

to the fullest, knowing what my capabilities are and searching for my purpose. But

the realization of the wasted self is achieved through his conversion to faith. In

church, priest teaches us to know that happiness can only be achieved through faith

that only God can attain true and eternal happiness made his possible in his

contemplation of the Truth and Divine Wisdom. God Himself. As St. Augustine

himself, said that the development of self can be achieved through self-presentation

and self-realization. One should reflect to what his/her doings are if it is right or

wrong or maybe you does things which are not really you. Just like being befriended

with someone who makes you do things that you do not do before such as taking

drugs, alcohol and other vices. So, in order to attain the true happiness, one should
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reflect about the meaning of his/her life. Self is made, through socialization

process and to the people around, one can hone the self he/she has. As they say,

that you are the maker of what you are. My point of view makes me side of this, as

what environment you are in reflects of what you are and what your friends are

reflects the attitude you have. And also self can be recreated in order to cope to the

changes in the world, just like before I really hate those persons who are

homosexual but as time passes by I’ve changed and I’ve learned to accept them.

Self-creation and collective identity, memories play significant role in creating the self

and identity, as memories can be a sad story that makes us a different person in the

present, just like a man who is an introvert being bullied, shy, when he was a kid, but

what makes him strong in the present is for him to develop himself, letting his self to

improve and cope to the problems with strength and confidence. The material self,

social self and spiritual self are the selves which the human is divided. The material

self are the things that belonged to us, social self, the social selves that shows who

we are the attitudes in dealing with other people, and the spiritual self that in my

perspective is the most important thing of all, because in my point of view only in

God first I will show who I really am before others. Thank you for this subject

especially to Ma’am Melva Porbolan because she is the one who helps us to attain

this kind of knowledge and thank you ma’am because you do your best to help us to

improve our self.