Know Thy Self

Know Thy Self

Finding one’s self often come along with maturity. When you’re young your body and mind go through so many changes that it is extremely difficult to really know who you are. After a person matures they can really get a feel for who they really are. Finding one’s self has a lot to do with morals and roots. Your morals are the idea of what you hold to be in your heart right or wrong, true or false. Knowing what your morals are will help you to find yourself. Roots, and traditions, and heritages, all effect who we are as people. They’re something that you have followed your whole life, and will definitely effect who you really are.
Everyone has strong and weak qualities. My weakest quality is my shyness. Well, my inability to immediately feel comfortable in new surroundings. Whenever I’m in a new place, with people that I’ve never met before, I will never be the one to start a conversation. Even when conversation has started it still takes a while for me to start to really feel comfortable. I’m learning to combat this shyness by thinking to myself, “honestly what is the worst thing that can happen?” If anything you may meet someone you really enjoy.
I feel that a real strength of mine is my humor. I use it all the time to diffuse heated and even awkward situations. When I argue with my dad, I always end the argument by saying something funny about they way my dad was arguing. Sometimes it makes him a little madder at first, but then we realize that what we were fighting about was just stupid. I’m at my funniest when I’m most comfortable. When I am surrounded by friends I’m completely relaxed and myself.
I think people have so much trouble thinking and writing their strengths and weaknesses, because people are not use to talking about that sort of thing. A person’s strength and weaknesses are what makes people vulnerable and human. Usually what ever is someone’s strength, the opposite is their weakness. Some people think that other people knowing your weakness makes them vulnerable. Your weakness is something, and maybe the only thing that can bring you down, and there are some people who once they find your weakness they want to use it against you. It’s not natural for people to admit that they are weak. It’s something that you want to keep to yourself if possible.
As humans we have a notion of wanting to look and be big and strong, and even though everybody has flaws and weaknesses, we still don’t want people to think that we do.