Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Why do you feel the need to define or "find" yourself?

Comments

[warrior-olight.livejournal.com]

Because Webster was such a TOOL when he defined me.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

*APPLAUDES* Brilliant!

[warrior-olight.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thank you, it just popped into my mind.

[wait.livejournal.com]

Because if I don't know who I am, how I can I expect someone else to understand me?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

In that case, how many people really understand you?

[wait.livejournal.com]

Why does it matter how many people really understand me?

For me, the significance is that they *want* to really know me, no matter what they find.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Very well said!

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

Because if i don't understand myself i can't understand anything...because i'm my best friend and i need me here ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That last part.... Excellently said!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

And a good 2 cruzeiros indeed... :)

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

I don't as a matter of course because I'm not just one thing. I use definitions as a touch stone rather than an anchor point. Sometimes I'm a weirdo, pervert, jester, monk, gamer, ninja, spaz, confidant, diplomat, lover, troubleshooter, voice of reason, prankster, or even a maestro or author or god. I'm none of these at all individually. That's too low, too basic. There's an ineffable gestalt that's Ron that's made up of these from time to time, but even my name is mercurial. I imagine that the same might even hold true for many people, but many people tend to trap themselves into one aspect that makes up their greater self. I don't feel sorry for them though if they're happy even if it's from blissful ignorance.

I don't think one finds one's ultimately definitive self. I think that one only finds aspects that make up the self. No one's a killer until they fight in a war and no one's a parent until they hold their child.

My 2 cruzeiros.

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

Because I hope I'm more than "mostly harmless"

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

You're definitely more than that :)

[lipzofs0rr0w.livejournal.com]

I think everyone has to define themselves because we need to feel like we have a purpose, and only through labels do we feel we have purpose. We can't just accept that everyone is the same at the core and that we were put here to help each other and to love and cherish. Instead we have become selfish and feel the need to be number one. I think a lot has to do with being told we can accomplish everything, therefore we have pressure to be everything we've ever wanted to be. And thats why I love my significant other, he doesn't have to define himself and he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He does the things he has a passion for and can careless what anyone has to say... and he doesn't allow his lack there of (as others would put it) to drag him down... To me that takes a strong and beautiful person to just be like he is.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Very well said :)

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

i don't.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Just be...

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

it's all i can do.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Er...I don't? Improve myself? Yes. Enjoy myself? Yes. Understand myself to the degree possible so that I can compensate for my own shortcomings? Definitely yes. But I've no desire to find myself. If myself is interested in being found, she knows where I live. I'm too busy reading to go looking for her.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Because how can we begin to understand the most important things in our lives, other people, when we do not even understand ourselves?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Now that's a very good point :)

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Another important question is;
"How well can you know yourself?"

Because almost everyone keeps secrets from themselves, and the masks and webs we weave are just as thick inside us as around us. And, except in very small Universes, you can't see the back of your own head.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Until you can accept the darkness inside you, you can never truly know yourself...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

And the darkness of mine
Is the darkness of mind.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

And yet, there's a light within...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

But the light that you find
So soothing inside
Is the burning suicide
For it's the light that will blind.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Take it
Temper it
and find within it
a light
of soul revelation
and let it guide you
through the night
towards the waiting dawn

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

And the harsh, scorching rays
That burn from beneath
And the billowing smoke
Torn from the wind
Filling your lungs
And blinding your eyes
Searing your flesh
Binding your lies
So retreat to within
To the cool sheltered shadows
Await in the calming
Soothing deep darkness.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Shade it
Hide it
Fear it
Deny it
yet the truth
of your spirit
is visible
for all to see

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

But more and more
It's more of Flesh
And less is more
More or less.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

So I know when I'm talking to myself, and when it's someone else! Can't keep pace without a scorecard!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

Great answer!

[kosta-pasta.livejournal.com]

coz I feel the powers inside of me, which can be useful not just for me but for many people, but I just don't know, yet how I can channel those powers. Thus, I need to find a way, my way:) Simple.:) You?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

To know myself means I don't crave understanding from others... I can just "Be"

[kosta-pasta.livejournal.com]

interesting...
I do not need it, but i'm still looking for myself. Where are you, Kat? Boo hoo?:)
Cool, different people -different definitions:) I am enjoing this:)

[torisrabbit.livejournal.com]

i don't think you really find yourself, but i think things come about when you learn new things about yourself you never thought would happen...if that makes any sense...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That does make sense :)

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

How does one define ornjness? It just is.

I guess at one point I was not in touch with my inner ornjness, but now that I have found it, I am finally me.