What does my future lies?

MIDNIGHT!/ Thursday, September 27, 2007

Whee! I removed my braces on tuesday! Straight teeth! *grins* :D

I enjoy swimming, but I don't enjoy the treatment which my hair gets after swimming. It gets too dry. sobs.

Self-esteem is "…the experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness". This two-factor approach, as some have also called it, provides a balanced definition that seems to be capable of dealing with limits of defining self-esteem primarily in terms of competence or worth alone. Maslow described two kinds of esteem needs — the need for respect from others and the need for self-respect. Maslowian self-esteem entails competence, confidence, mastery, achievement, independence, and freedom. Respect from others entails recognition, acceptance, status, and appreciation. Without the fulfillment of these needs, Maslow suggests, an individual feels discouraged, weak and inferior. Source: wikipedia.

We shouldn't be feeling confident of ourselves because of our tangible achievements. While we delight at being able to achieve good results, winning a competition, emerging as a winner in a competition etc., we should not use these accomplishments as a measure of our character, simply because it is easy to lose them. So if you feel confident about yourself just based on the excellent results which you have achieved, you will find yourself feeling worthless the next time round when you are unable to obtain good results. Therefore, instead of looking at what you have accomplished, seek for other intangible values in yourself. Everyone has their own strength! What we need to do then is just to look for it. And it's never too late to start seeking. And in this ever changing world, when we adopt, what kind of change will we ourselves undergo? Thoughts can change, but your character shouldn't. Hmm.

Past. Present. Future
9/27/2007 09:49:00 PM <3

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