Who's the Real Me?A question that should be asked by people. One that perhaps, cannot be answered. Who am I? Am I who I really am, or who people perceive me to be? Indeed, when George Herbert Mead established the theory of the
mind and the
self, and interesting perspective to life had been formed.
The self is actually the socialized aspect of a person. I am a male, a student, something that society expects of me, and as such I act in that way. The mind is the space within which my personality can stray from the expected path. I am who I am and what I want myself to be. And yet we cannot just be anyone and anything. We are constrained. Constrained by the expectations of society, social facts that have been present before our very births.
But indeed, who am I? In today's age, persona are increasingly adopted by people. A shy, quiet outward persona. A dark, inward persona that lives within the confines of one's mind. A third, online persona, perhaps extroverted, enthusiastic and deeply involved in many things. But which is the real me?
Can we, through thinking and meditating, ever establish our true
self? Or will it instead lead to a rapid divergence from the truth. And are we afraid of our true selves should we find it, after removing layer after layers of masks that we wear each day that we no longer realize that we are wearing them?
To this, there is no conclusion. But I question the criticality of this question. Even if we
did know, what would change?
I'm Back + ReflectionsI'm back to my blog! Sorry for being away so so so long and its really good to be back blogging. Its funny how blogging has changed people's lives. I think blogging for me has forced me in many ways to step back and view my life from a better perspective, one that better covers more angles than a simple first-person view. In all the criticism leveled at the technological claustrophobia that has probably caught quite a good many youths, I think that it has also opened a good many new doors.
And so Semester 2 has come to and end and I'm going to be in my Third Year. Its daunting. But looking forward and back, I see a great my possible exciting events that could and hopefully would happen. Life has also gotten back into perhaps a more happier phase where more things are going well (not counting my results). If things go well, hopefully in the summers I would have climbed Mt Kinabalu, gone overseas to HK to fence, and hopefully, if I'm diligent enough, learn a bit of Spanish in preparation for an exchange there next year.
Looking back, I've had a great sem. A nice break away from Econs (though I'm a little regretting it now haha), and a couple of enjoyable classes, I think despite the horrors of Finance I've had a good sem with more friends and a little more fun. Accomplishments wise there probably isn't much, but then again, it wasn't in my agenda. Vice-Pres Windsurfing is quite troubling itself haha. Hoefully we'll be able to rebuild that club from scratch! But I'm sure we will, its truly a sport not like any other. So try it guys and girls! And call me out to surf as well!
As a person, I've grown to understand myself a bit more. What makes me tick and what actually can make me angry. Haha. Indeed I think I'm a very personal person. Not gonna elaborate on that though. Do I like how I operate? I think so. And I would probably stay like that for at least the rest of the year.
I'm not sure whats a good blog topic for the rest of the summer, so perhaps I'll turn to either a more philosophical or more research tone. And maybe there will be some knowledge to be gleaned from my blog. Stay tuned!
