I was quite “intrigued” or got interested as I read the title of the group’s PowerPoint presentation which is “How to understand yourself”. It’s because there were certain times or instances in my life when I would ask myself, “Why am I like this?” or “What’s in me/what do I have that they could think of me that way?”
The PowerPoint presentation suggested eighteen tips on how to understand yourself. One of the tips or ways has stated or suggested, rather, to “Understand your thought process”. From this, I paused for a moment, and then slowly evaluating myself, recognizing how I react to certain situations especially to the consequences or problems arising or dropping by in my life road.
“Understand your response to stress.” I became quite attentive at this tip for I have been experiencing stress almost all the time especially in this quite “torture” kind of school year semester, although I’m still in my first year course in IIT. When I get stressed, I easily get irritated or hot-tempered. But as soon as this tip is shared to us, I’ve learned that getting irritable or hot-tempered when you get stressed is normal; all you have to do is to understand it and know how to control your temper that it would not fall in a wrong place when it gets exaggerated or whatever.
“Understand what pleases you most.” I know that there are things which I’m fond of or pleases me but opposes the “wants” or “likes” of others. But instead of copying their likes or the things that made them happy or pleases them (especially when you are in a circle of friends), I learned that it should not be that way, for you’re like wasting effort in giving or promoting them happiness for their sake only. All you have to do is just accept and understand what pleases you the most, even when it becomes a wall to others. Just like what most people say, “Do whatever that makes you happy”.
“Understand you privacy. “ Yes, there were times when I get too verbal or open when it comes to the bad emotions or hurtful feelings or some experiences and confess/share it to others that sometimes would end up in finding my whole self regretting in a corner; for then I got betrayed, hurt or lose trust. Maybe I was just too “overloaded” with these intense or deep bad emotions/feelings inside that I wanted to just burst out loud, without thinking what would possibly happen, than keeping it to myself letting the wound inside get worse than ever. But as time went by, I began to understand my privacy and limit it after those experiences, where some of them were quite bitter, not better.
Well, these are only some of the tips that the group has suggested on how to understand yourself. I’ve learned a lot from this topic that I could conclude everything I have learned from this topic in seven words, “understand yourself by accepting who you are.”
