Being an empath is fucking hard. If you are one you’ll completely understand but if you’re not I’ll tell you what it’s like being an empath.
Do You Know Your True Nature? Are You A Decent Person? How Well Do You Know Yourself?
We all think we know ourselves pretty good, right? For example; we could list dozens of things we do and don’t like, places we want to go, things that annoy us, things we’re good at, things that piss us off, what makes us laugh and tons more.
However, few of us have actually sat down and spent the time thinking and answering questions about ourselves. What I mean is answering questions with more depth that provoke more thought than something like what’s your favourite colour?
The benefit of answering questions about ourselves is a deeper understanding of what we’re made of, introspectively. By knowing ourselves we can also better understand everyone else.
The Proust Questionnaire
There is a questionnaire, popularized by a French essayist and author named Marcel Proust, that consists of a series of questions that he believed revealed a person’s true nature.
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“You’re not an introvert! If I had to describe you that would be the last thing I’d pick.”
This was part of an actual conversation between me and a friend recently.
“What?! Really?” was my reply. Mind blown.
My entire life I’ve known I am an introvert and just assumed that I seemed like one. (Not that it would be a bad thing.) I thought it was very apparent to everyone around me that I am an introverted personality.
Personal Values. What Are They?
If I asked you, “What are your personal values?” would you be able to answer that?
Some of us probably could but I’m certain many of us would have to think about it first before winging the answer.
One way to really get to know yourself is to figure out what your personal values actually are.
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I know myself better now, after 39 years on this earth, I’m no longer a stranger to myself.
Hi Self, nice to meet you.
How well do you know yourself?
I have struggled with my emotions and knowing who the fuck I am the majority of my life. I never understood why I did the things I did or felt certain ways. I didn’t know what I wanted or needed or even narrowed down what was important to me.
After the heart-wrenching divorce of my parents at 10, then going through my confounding teens that led me into my even more perplexing 20’s which slid right into my thirties of disorientation I eventually drifted into a place of understanding and culpability. It’s been a bumpy ride.
In my earlier years, I didn’t know that sitting alone in my closet for hours on end wasn’t normal or that thinking up a new person wanting to be her was strange. (her name was Kala) Nobody told me that the constant feeling of defeat and anguish wasn’t the way everybody felt.
I also didn’t know that begging for love wasn’t something that everyone needed to do. I thought I was a difficult person to love, that it was my fault.
Learning through a shit ton of self-reflection and research that there were reasons for these feelings and the behaviour that stemmed from them (All of which could have been dealt with and healed if I had only known to try.) helped me start my journey of getting to know myself.
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