Knowing Things About Yourself

I am not going to play a philosophical game of semantics here. That would be something like: If you are both the subject and the object, how could the first know the other? It is like two mirrors facing each other- just as self the subjects seeks to know what it is it becomes the object, like a dog running around chasing its tail. You realize you can never see your eyes of course; only their reflection. Such discourse adds nothing to the meaning of your life as far as I'm concerned, and in fact, I'll go ahead and be bold enough to assert that this is exactly what self-analysis is.

The fact is that you are a dynamic agent! A doer, a shaper and mover- these are your main attributes and responsibilities. You help make the world what is, by doing. Now I would assert that you can know yourself best by your actions. If a man drinks and gets into bar brawls and mistreats his family then that is what he becomes. Or at least that is a side to him. But consider a person who treats people with kindness and fairness, who is sensitive to the needs and wants of others and is attentive. A person who is generous and often buys people thoughtful little knickknacks, well then that person is entirely different isn't she?

My point is that we become what we act like, and that's mostly what defines whom you are. The other aspect is our own inner thoughts and feelings, but though they may seem hidden, they too will eventually show themselves through action. So it's very important to be deliberate in what you do. What I say to somebody this morning will reverberate tonight. The mirror to the self is the external world. Trying to understand the self inwardly only ends in a delusion.

By: Dinah Jackson

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