At what age did you "Find Yourself" ?

[Zapp Brannigan]

I'm 22 and i'm a lost fukkin child

I began to find myself when I was 23, going on 24. It all began with Electric Daisy Carnival and a following weekend in Las Vegas...

 

[Xtraz2]

i think having a lot of social experience helps u "find yourself" faster

u go out and talk to more people u learn things waaay faster than u would just sittin around by yourself and presuming things about people

u learn wut different people do, and learn bout wut else is out there, people can put u up on a lot of shortcuts, different perspectives and insights that u would of never thought of

so social interaction helps u mature a lot faster, just getting out there in tha world, u can't sit in your room all day playin video games and expect to find yourself....

and its not easy at first, especially if your solo to go out and do things, but once u let go of your insecurities, fears, and apprhensions thats when u truly start living...

 

[Wild self]

Still finding myself. Reality hit me when my pops got diagnosed with diabetes back in Labor Day 2010. Been at the same time I really put myself forward and going out more often. Life is short and I cannot waste it on videogames.

 

[Urbanmiracle]

Once I realize my wit and intellect was appreciated.


So after high school. In a box

 

[Malta]

i think having a lot of social experience helps u "find yourself" faster

u go out and talk to more people u learn things waaay faster than u would just sittin around by yourself and presuming things about people

u learn wut different people do, and learn bout wut else is out there, people can put u up on a lot of shortcuts, different perspectives and insights that u would of never thought of

so social interaction helps u mature a lot faster, just getting out there in tha world, u can't sit in your room all day playin video games and expect to find yourself....

and its not easy at first, especially if your solo to go out and do things, but once u let go of your insecurities, fears, and apprhensions thats when u truly start living...

You'll never find yourself if you have to rely on social interactions with others, if you're perfectly fine being alone then you've ultimately made peace with who you are.

You don't need different perspectives, the only one that matters is your own, and having other perspectives shape yours isn't really helpful IMO. If you ask most people where they found themselves, it was probably when they were alone.

 

[Xtraz2]

You'll never find yourself if you have to rely on social interactions with others, if you're perfectly fine being alone then you've ultimately made peace with who you are.

You don't need different perspectives, the only one that matters is your own, and having other perspectives shape yours isn't really helpful IMO. If you ask most people where they found themselves, it was probably when they were alone.

i disagree completely

if u don't interact with others u have no solid ground on where u stand in life

how can u "find" yourself, if u tha only one there? theres no search then


as much as our egos might not like to believe, we are shaped by others prespective and influence ALL THA TIME, thats wut makes us who we are


u have over 5,000 posts on a message board where u do nothing but interact with other people

if thats tha case, lock yourself in your room all day and cut off all interaction with society, lets see how far u get, they got a thing called prison - Segregated Housing for that, and i know nikkaz first hand thats been in there, its not somewhere u want to be, and it did nothing but traumatize them, not help them find who they are

 

[Malta]

i disagree completely

if u don't interact with others u have no solid ground on where u stand in life

how can u "find" yourself, if u tha only one there? theres no search then


as much as our egos might not like to believe, we are shaped by others prespective and influence ALL THA TIME, thats wut makes us who we are

You don't need others to find yourself, again, plenty of people find themselves while they are alone. How many people have an epiphany while they're surrounded by a group of people in a bar or club? How can you find yourself if you're the only one there? easy, nothing else is competing for your thoughts. Being alone with your own thoughts is absolutely frightening for most people, if you can't make peace with being alone, you can't truly find yourself.


My perspectives on life are more closely aligned with Buddhist monks than anything else, yet I have never had any interactions with them, and I never studied the religion. I got that way from being on my own, alone in another country, sitting on a beach one day for 4 hours and just thinking by myself.

 

[Malta]

u have over 5,000 posts on a message board where u do nothing but interact with other people

:ninjawhat:

Terrible point, I'm interacting with people long after I've established who I am. Nowhere did I say to cut yourself off from people from the rest of your life, just that finding yourself while relying on others is pointless.

if thats tha case, lock yourself in your room all day and cut off all interaction with society, lets see how far u get, they got a thing called prison - Segregated Housing for that, and i know nikkaz first hand thats been in there, its not somewhere u want to be, and it did nothing but traumatize them, not help them find who they are

You're trying to use segregation in prison, a form of punishment in an argument on people finding themselves, really?

 

[Xtraz2]

You don't need others to find yourself, again, plenty of people find themselves while they are alone. How many people have an epiphany while they're surrounded by a group of people in a bar or club? How can you find yourself if you're the only one there? easy, nothing else is competing for your thoughts. Being alone with your own thoughts is absolutely frightening for most people, if you can't make peace with being alone, you can't truly find yourself.


My perspectives on life are more closely aligned with Buddhist monks than anything else, yet I have never had any interactions with them, and I never studied the religion. I got that way from being on my own, alone in another country, sitting on a beach one day for 4 hours and just thinking by myself.

how can u think of a new perspective if u don't know anything?


if i sit in a room all day i will be thinking about tha same recycled shyt all day over and over, u had to have learned that from somewhere

unless u wuz born as a baby and didn't have any social interaction at all, and sat couped up in tha house all day

 

[1980sCokeFlow]

if thats tha case, lock yourself in your room all day and cut off all interaction with society, lets see how far u get, they got a thing called prison - Segregated Housing for that, and i know nikkaz first hand thats been in there, its not somewhere u want to be, and it did nothing but traumatize them, not help them find who they are

That's an extreme example... Of course you're going to nut the fukk up being by yourself by force under duress. You know you understand what dude is saying although you may disagree.

 

[Xtraz2]

You're trying to use segregation in prison, a form of punishment in an argument on people finding themselves, really?

wutever its intended form is, is irrelevant

point being they solitary confined with nothing but they thoughts, i guess thats a good way to find yourself according to u?

 

[Xtraz2]

That's an extreme example... Of course you're going to nut the fukk up being by yourself by force under duress. You know you understand what dude is saying although you may disagree.

i'm being serious with that example

theres nothing to nut up about in SHU, u don't have to face other prisoners or rivals, u there by yourself with your own thoughts, thats it

 

[Malta]

wutever its intended form is, is irrelevant

point being they solitary confined with nothing but they thoughts, i guess thats a good way to find yourself according to u?

They are locked in a 6x8 room without freedom, this is an utterly stupid argument you're making.

You could have the baddest bytches on the planet locked in a prison with you, and interactions with the most interesting man in the world during yard time, once you lose freedom none of that matters.

 

[Malta]

i'm being serious with that example

theres nothing to nut up about in SHU, u don't have to face other prisoners or rivals, u there by yourself with your own thoughts, thats it

For 23 hours a day, without the ability to go take a shower if you want to, great point. This is the example a smart-dumb nikka comes up with, using prison.

 

[Art Barr]

a artbar post that makes sense


i had to dap this shyt

All my post make sense.
You just may not be at the cognitive point like you were with this one to digest the content.




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