Who am I?
I ask myself this question whenever I am in a time of stress and or discomfort. My answers usually consists of I am a person who dreams of achieving incredible feats, with a family who is loving and supportive. I have friends who care for me as I care for them. I am health, and what ever stresses I have, can be summed up with the amount of school work the given week brings.
Is there a self that I can control?
The self that I can control is knowing how and when to put up personal filters. What I mean by personal filters is, knowing what to say in specific situations or knowing how to behave when I am in select company. Not acting on emotion is another way of using a personal filter. In the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Both Joel and Clementine reacted to an emotion and erased their memories of each other. In my opinion this was silly because even though the memories may be painful to think about after a break up, but those memories help build our personal filters and protect us from a similar situation.
What Forces Shape our sense of Self?
The forces of the past help shape who we are in the present.
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