Understanding the Self

Exit by Exile, a Japanese song, for me is one of my most favorite songs as it gives inspiration and
motivation for the listeners. It gives inspiration in a way that no matter how life would treat you, you
must never give up. If you fail, like in any video games, you can just reset or restart a new. It also
emphasizes the essence of having a certain dream and goal, like as the song suggest soon you'll see the
exit, the exit that shall conclude a part of your life's journey, and open a new door that shall unfold a
new you or be a better version of yourself. Using this song in relevance with the Triadic Reciprocal
Determinism or the P.B.E Model (Person - Behavior - Environment), the person per say to cognition is
how someone controls his or her mindset on aiming and reaching his or her goals, by determining his or
her dreams and goals in life they want to achieve in their lives comes the factor of both behavior and
environment. In the song, it uses a term 'old map wouldn't be of help" it can also mean that old
strategies, same old personality characteristic that you have, actions you have been doing, that gradually
keeps failing means you have to set your mind as a facilitator of your own self, as one who controls your
actions, that in order to reach a certain goal or dream you must use a new and improvised map in order
for you to reach that exit which may also open new opportunities for you to be better as a person. In
reaching goals and dreams, our environment may either be a hindrance, an obstacle, something to stop
us for reaching it, or the other way round, a stepping stone to enable us to move forward to the next
step on reaching our goals, they can be our source of encouragement and motivation that no matter
how hard these steps are we'll get pass through it. Also in the relationship of person and environment,
the song states that ' Everyone has its own destination they are headed to; They are walking towards it
without even knowing, if you lost sight of where you are headed to, just search for the exit.' Like even if
the breeze or the flow of the wind changes, within oneself, you'll still be able to know the right path and
direction to take using your goals and dreams as a guide. Also there is a saying, that every obstacle or
pinch, is an opportunity in disguise, let us say for example, children who were not able to go to school,
due to major financial problems, poverty, drop outs, who stopped going to school for some various
reasons, but being in that situation doesn't mean that your life ends there and the future will just remain
the same you living your life as a drop out, becomes a beggar, asking for alms on streets, or public utility
vehicles, cause every one has a goal and destination they are headed too. The journey of life is not just a
one way street that is a very long straight road, it will lead you to different paths, sometimes rocky,
sometimes too much curves going around, and those lucky times where everything is just smooth. The
environment may affect these people on how would they think next, what could their actions be after
the decision they made considering consequences made for them to act upon by their environment. Will
they let these affect them to the point of being so helpless and be nothing or will they consider the fact
that even if they were not able to finish school, they can still be productive, they can still be successful?
Either way for sure, as the song says everyone has their own destination, others may just find it faster
and others may took a little longer on navigating their direction to the right path, again this implies the
mindset of a person and actions to be done for the person to finally reach that exit someday. Everyone
has their own destination but it does not mean that it has already been predicted or destined that
someone will be like this or that, or someday he'll be in this certain country to be someone his
environment aims him to be in where in fact it is not his calling or where he really wants to be. We, with
the divine's guidance, recreate our own paths and direction we want to take, like in Waze, an application
used to direct us to where we are headed to but at some point we get lost, so it gives alternative routes
by rerouting (changing of paths) to help us reach our destination conveniently and properly. Following
along the flow of the wind would not always seem right in some situations cause it may lead you to a
situation wherein you might find yourself trapped in a manhole or falling into a cliff, rather you must
weigh things out by following what shall your mind and heart tells you to do, where you must go, and
how can you deal with the circumstances of life influenced by the environment. If you would consistently
go with the flow, without weighing things out, or balancing what is right or wrong, what is toxic or
beneficial, you are more likely to lost sight of where you are headed too and these also can lead to a
feeling that life suddenly lost its meaning, or you suddenly forgot the purpose of life, and that you
become stuck in a corner clueless of what to do next. So if you must, make your goals and dreams your
guide or stepping stones to reach that final destination, the exit and be what you really want to be. If you
still have tons of years or months though you may never know, use these chances to recreate a better
version of yourself each day as you live, though life has no backspace we can always start a new
beginning, a reset of game plan( how you'll drive your life), and as they say, we just have to keep trying
to succeed if one doesn't work out, try a new, soon you'll find the one that shall work for you the best.