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A question on personal growth

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Hexagon, Nov 8, 2014.

  1. Hexagon

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    What kind of person do you want to become? This isn't a question about a future profession, or anything, but about character. And, are you trying to become this person?
     
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    The person I feel obligated to be spend their life working for charities, gives all their money to charity and has no life of their own.

    The person I want to be lives in a bungalow, sleeps on a mattress, gives the majority of their wage to charity but keeps enough to live, is active in rights movements and charities, is a professor in something.

    I feel like I'm trying to work towards being that person.
     
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    To answer my own question, I want to become stronger (in terms of will and conviction, not physical strength). I want to be someone who stands up for others, who fights for what is right, and who behaves selflessly. I'm not selfish, or neglectful of the weak or oppressed, but sometimes I am. I give in to apathy and selfish behaviour, and it's that is what I want to end. I do work towards this, in the only way I know how, by trying to be that person every day. Change, when it's truly meaningful, is hard, and it takes time, and I understand that setbacks sometimes happen. People don't just decide to change; its something they do every day.

    Well, that was a little rambling, but there you go. My thoughts on this little aspect of life.
     
  4. beyourself

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    I want to become someone I can be proud of. Be friendly, love someone wholeheartedly, strong minded, have a goal in life I want to achieve and work for. With every day I becomr more and more of this person.
     
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    A person who leaves the world in a better condition than what it was like before. I want to be a world traveler, and one who improved humanity :slight_smile:
     
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    I want to be someone who doesn't look back at their life and say "I wish I had done that".
     
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    Someone who can look in the mirror and say "No, I'm not perfect. But I'm me." I want to be someone who loves what they dó, and someone who can rise above things when life is constantly trying to tear him down.
     
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    a person who is less anxious and clumsy and knows how to talk to people.
     
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    I want to become more confident, definitely. I used to be okay with being shy, but recently I've hated it.
     
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    I'm shy and that is ok to me. It's the lack of self-confidence that I want to overcome and I also want to be less anxious. I worry too much.
     
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    Idealistically I want to be someone who doesn't compromise

    Realistically I want to be someone that can deal with shit I don't like
     
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    Combo breaker... I don't want "to be" someone, I am someone already.

    I'd like to be remembered first as someone kind and strong, who was there in times of need. Second, that a few people won't forget I wrote some silly books with a few nice lines inside them.
     
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    I want to be a more emotionally secure person and someone who can be more consistent and hardworking.
     
  14. Rawrzilla

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    I. Need. Discipline. I don't have an inch of discipline (nothing, zero, zilch, nie, nada) in any aspect of my life and it's the one thing dragging me down. Yes, I'm trying to overcome this but so far I haven't been met with much success. Luckily I'm stubborn. Sadly, I'm also impatient.
     
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    I am the person I want to be already, for I love myself.
    Thanks to that, I'm able to love others.