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THE PERSON I AM

宋婴子  

    An innate question for humans beings is, “Who am I?” A failure to answer this question can be disastrous for our well-being, since it refers to making a distinctive decision to what we aspire to do, and what we want to achieve in our lives. Consequently, it becomes easier for people to manipulate and shape us into what they want if we don’t give ourselves an answer to this fundamental question. As for me, I have become grounded in an idea of myself, and this has aided me in being self-confident.
    Richard Gunde (2002) posits that a person’s physical appearance is the foundation on which other people judge them by . Unfortunately, identifying oneself this way is inaccurate because other people cannot appropriately deduce who I am just by my height or the way I dress. For instance, I am a short person, which consequently assigns me to the lower regions of the social ladder, so to speak. Most people will treat me with prejudice because of my height. But only after these interlocutors interact with me can they more or less make an idea of who I am. A personality – that is a gateway into knowing whom people truly are. Through the personality I exhibit, people can perceive how good I am. My friends see me as caring and generous, always willing to go that extra mile for them.
    For a person to achieve a lot, they need to set high goals and values, and pursue them throughout their whole lives with diligence. However, the fact that not many people act upon this procedure is quite disturbing, because it seems that such people simply go adrift and don’t make efforts to manage the many areas of their lives as a coherent whole. I think that I could be called an exception among my friends. I am a focused and organized person who is determined to achieve the best that life has offered me in the way of opportunities. I know when I will retire, and what activities I should engage in at their correct time in my life. I also know how much money I will have saved by the time I am fifty years old.
    Besides being above the rest in determination and organization, I have a penchant for writing. I attribute this to my parents who were both teachers and encouraged me to read and write from a tender age. By the time I was three, I could read and write, and I would spend my spare time cuddled up on the floor trying to make sense of high school textbooks while my peers were out playing in the sandpit. When writing, at times I get so enthusiastic that I hardly realize what I am trying to put across. My fingers fly over the keyboard and ideas just pour from my head. Later, when I go through the hodgepodge of scribbled ideas, I invariably notice themes. Evaluating these themes help decipher my bottled-up emotions and interpret my characters. In stories, the characters express my viewpoint. Opinion essays, on the other hand, demonstrate my values.
    I believe that physical appearances are not the best yardstick for evaluating who a person really is. My personality, ambitions, and what I love doing should be the best criteria for defining who I really am. One should never be worried that they do not know everything about themselves because we are continuously learning and discovering new aspects of ourselves. Personally, I am satisfied knowing that my friends value me and consider me an asset.