Find Your Self
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- sarahfailin-1
Regarding *why* some people feel they need to find their self--
You could regard a person's self as having two parts: an inward existence and an outward existence. Your inward existence is who you deeply feel that you are, how you define yourself, your values, how you are different from others. Your outward existence is how you believe other people perceive you, your willingness to live up to other people's expectations, and your willingness to follow other people's values.
For many people, they are for much of their lives upswept in the expectations of everyone around them. They don't see out from their own eyes (as a subject), they see themselves as they believe those around them see them (as an object). These people ask themselves 'why' they do and believe the things they do.
To go "find their self" they have to remove themselves from the historical context of their life that has defined and controlled them. They go backpacking, move away, break off relationships, and become an isolated thing. They see what it's like not to live as an object, but to explore for once as a true subject.
I think it's healthy to remove yourself periodically from the context of your life. Take away your friends, your house, your possessions, your job-- what's left?
- A: HomelessnessORAZAL
- I would add to this that modern life such as entertainment, work, education, culture is more of a signal scramble of people and indoctrinationyurimon
- into a system or machine for purpose of extorting energy as opposed to a spiritual systemyurimon
- is it really purposed that way? or it just happened that way? geez everything is a conspiracy to you.pango