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Friday, December 19, 2008
What do you like most about yourself?
What do you like most about yourself and of course, why, if you know why? It could be looks, a body part, an instinct, an aspect of your mind, a talent, a mannerism, a personality trait, an outlook, a social position, just anything. And it's about the current "you", so it does not have to be something you have always possessed or know you will always possess. Blow your trumpet unabashedly! :-)
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Hmmmmm.....
There are many things I like about myself. If I hadn't put much thought into the question, I would have said intelligence, but even though this is something that I do like about myself, I don't think it is the aspect of my personality that I like most.
I think, net, I like the die-hard spirit about myself the most. The attitude of never giving up is something about myself that perhaps will allow me to survive in any situation. And this is the reason why I like it the most. Intelligence is like a Porsche parked in your garage. Unless you use it productively and positively, it remains in the garage. Also, depending on the circumstance, it could be the case that you're willing to drive it out of the garage, but you live in India, so you have nowhere to exploit its true potential. However, a die-hard tendency will find utility even in the most adverse circumstances. It can even help you survive even in an amazon rain forest. It can help you survive things that normally shatter other people, such as betrayal by close friends and relatives, divorce, death of a near and loved one, etc.
Intelligence is something that is cultivated over lifetimes, and so is a rare thing, as I find when I look at the world around me. It is developed by constantly applying the intellect in analysing situations, problems, people and circumstances. The extent to which intelligence and a die-hard spirit are interrelated is open to debate.
Perhaps a die-hard attitude is related to being highly individualistic, but being highly individualistic is not something about myself that I particularly like, even though I choose to be this way. In particular, it tends to make you insular and not very open to other people. Perhaps this is a natural difference between men and women - women seem to be more open and more vulnerable, and yet they manage to survive, in spite of their excessive emotions, or perhaps because of them. If one looks at the statistics for suicide rates in India, it turns out that more men kill themselves than women. So whether an individualistic attitude or an attitude of excessive emotion and empathy are better predictors to survivability is again open to debate.
I relate my die-hard attitude to being highly individualistic and insular, and hence being more self-reliant and less impervious to other peoples' opinions. Women manage to achieve the same thing by being more empathetic, caring and seemingly vulnerable. I cannot understand how this works, and it is perhaps for this reason that I've chosen to be born a man rather than a woman.
Which leads me to the critical question: What exactly is inner strength? Are there any attitude-specific predictors to inner strength? How is it that women achieve inner strength by a free expression and feeling of emotions, whereas I believe that I do the same by choosing not to entertain useless emotions? Is this the reason why it is commonly believed that women are impossible to understand? I think your question throws up many more questions, not all of which may have definitive answers.
My voice, my musical sense, my ability to not get carried away easily by people/ opinions (sometimes works to my disadvantage too though), my eyes. (wish there were more...?)
Waiting to hear yours :)
OK thanks both for your responses. :-) I wonder why the participation is so poor this time. may be it's too personal a question?
Anyways, I think my answer is- I see beauty around me, I mean even things that are often easily missed by people around... and I don't just refer to the physical world, but I refer to beauty in the larger and abstract sense - beauty in patterns, beauty in concepts, although physical beauty certainly is a big part of it. I picked this as my best trait because I derive happiness from this. The level of detail to which I see it and the extent to which I enjoy beauty end up keeping me happy. :-)
Empathy..It hard for me to find someone in pain and let it go.I cant always help but I always feel the pain. This is the single most aspect of my nature that has given me immense happiness. Buying little food for a hungry child, just chatting with an old couple, helping someone get in a bus and sometimes just being a listner, being there.
thanks for sharing, Perception! :-)
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