The Self

Each of us has our own perception about self that could affect our way of living, that could
affect our beliefs in life; and that could affect on how we behave in this place called “world":
Self is something that could have many different perspective and aspects depending on the
person who is talking about it. Some may say that self is just the person we see each and every
day, but others may tell that self is changing in whatever we do in our life. For some people, self
is just an illusion, but for others it is a kind of thing that would always accompany us in our
everyday living. Self can be confusing. It depends on how we are going to interpret self, based
from our own experiences in life. Self could be a different thing to a lot of different people.
Some like it, some may don’t care, and some may loathe it.
In the previous discussion about self, there are lots of perspectives and aspects about self that
had been presented. It tells many ideas about self that really made me confused of what or
which I am going to believe in. There’s a curiosity in my mind that leads to confusion. Self can
be the individual or the other individual. Basically, self is entirely open to different
interpretation, perspectives and aspects. It is incredibly changing, through people that gives
and reflects to their ideas about self. We can make it something at one point, and change it to
mean something in the future. It is just a manifestation that we are the ones making
perceptions and aspects about self. It is up to us if what or which those perceptions that we’ll
going to believe in. This happening leads us in answering the perdurable question, "Who am I?",
that constitutes our awareness and understanding to our way of existence of the unitary
consciousness called the self.
As time passed by, there had been a lot of ideas about the self that evolve in various ways of
living of different people. According to Plato, self must always constitute the balance and logical
thinking of an individual. There must be an equal dimension in our life in order for us to have a
fruitful living. Basically, for Plato, the self is all about how we managed our self in proper
dealing to our experiences. He signifies that our self have to maintain balance in everything we
do, for us to experience the beauty of life and to acquire and attain the goal that we have. Back
then, the perspective of the self was focused to how an individual acts as a person, but now as
it emerged, it has been associated to the different social processes of human development. The
views about self is seemingly changing everyday.
Nowadays, some may say that self is the society. Yes, we can further define it as the society.
Why? Because without having the self, their would not be the so called "society". There won't
be the innovation that continously happening in our modern world rightnow. Self is the unit in
society that gives greater impact not only to a smaller part as well as in a whole. As we live in
the modern world rightnow, or some called it as digital society, our views about self was also
adapted on how we go through to our experiences in our present society. For instance, the
digital world can be a factor of how we view the self. It could affect our way of thinking since
we are being dependent in the modern technologies in our generation. The society that we
have rightnow, greatly change on how we see the self back then. These can be the reason why
there are internal and external factors that affects our perspective and aspects of the self. The
internal factor comes from within the persona, of how he or she sees the self and its nature,
while the external factor comes from how the environment influences our way of defining and
having perception about it. Thus, the self was changed not only by the modern society, but also
by the different trends that is occuring to many individuals.
As we can observe in our modern society, self by nature is associated to the human
development. There will be no development if there is no self. Self is a manifestation that in
order to have improvements, we should have the self. It doesn't talk about the self literally, but
it talks about the self that has an understanding to his or her identity as a human being. Self is
something that we need to build in our life just to have the satisfaction that we want. We
cannot define the self simply by just saying or looking on one aspect of it. We need to be fair
enough in dealing with it like in ourselves.
Self in such a way is a part of our existence in this world. We must need to understand
ourselves, for us to give definition of it. Having self-awareness is very crucial part of being a
person. It is because, when we know ourselves, we could deal to different happenings that we
may encounter. Knowing thyself, can help us in many ways also. It could be something that
could bring us to the bright side of our life. Being self-aware is as also knowing your strenghts
and weaknesses. Understanding one's self is based upon us. We need not to depend on others
by looking on how they view it. We should learn to know our own self and start defining of how
we view it. We are humans and we have different intellect and opinions. We don't need to be
controlled of the things that is happening at this current times. We should remember that, our
self is always depend on us. It is up to us if we'll be after of perception of others or we'll be after
on our perception about it.