Digital Self

The technology today plays a big role in our society today. Especially now that we are experiencing a global pandemic, the technology helped us to communicate with people without having physical interactions. But we all know that there is a negative outcome of the digital today, I personally experienced having a poser on facebook. Where the person is copying my facebook account and trying to copy all my identity. The fact that I was still in grade 6 during that time and I was not really careful on what I post online. I rant on my public facebook account, I post something that is supposed to be kept. Its so hard to tell my online friends that its not my account and I needed them to help me report that account. Its quite tiring because during that time I was not really a techy person. I never thought of having this as a serious problem before. I never realised that those things before that what I am doing is not right. It is really cringe when the memory today in facebook pops up and I saw the things that I am doing in online before. Let's all admit that we are all a jeje person before (lol) I thanked God that I am matured person right now. I get to realised things easily by just reflecting on those things. Now, I am knowledgeable enough on what are the things that we should be aware in posting, reading fake news online by studying Media Literacy. To everyone, Let's be aware on what is happening online and let's think before we click.

Political Self

I never thought that when we say political its not just talks about the government only but its also talks about us, its because we are also political in our own little way. For me, I dont see myself becoming a politician someday. Its because when you have to commit yourself with that work, you have to give up everything for your own fellow citizens. It takes a lot of courage to stand up and be confident and making social interactions with other people. I know everything starts with our family, it is where we develop our political self. Maybe the reason why I dont see myself being like that its because I dont have the father who will influence me to become he wanted me to be. Even though my mom is the who fulfills his role, there is really something missing in building my own identity. I admire those people who are influenced by their family to become the person they wanted to be in the good way. Even though there was missing with my family, I have my school who molded me to know the important values in life. I am proud to say that despite the challenges or the missing points in my life, I realised that I have the priviledge to do something equal. All the aspects are there in order to be politically inclined. Thats why I admire those politics who serve the country very well and serves as a role model in living with a virtouos life.

Spiritual Self

There is a point in my life where I needed to work on my spiritual values. I grew up with a religious family, but I have two different religious gatherings to attend during sundays. During the sunday morning I was attending christian fellowship with my grand mother and father while on the afternoon I usually join my mother attending mass. My faith was built since I was younger, I like to sing and dance and shout for joy for Jesus. I like to memorize verses in the bible and tell everybody it is my favorite verse of all. When I was in highschool, my favorite subject is the Christian Living. I like to listen to word of God, stories and other God related things. I can tell I excell in this subject, and I became more interested about it and my friends always teases me that I only excell in this subject. For me it was not a big deal, its because I know that not everyone of us has that kind interest like mine. All along I thought my faith was strong enough to survive the everyday challenges that God has given to me. Until such time where I am experiencing anxiety, its because of the earthquakes that has happened last year. It brought trauma to me, everyday I was dealing with my anxiety. I even questioned myself if my faith in God was really enough? Why do I experience such things, I feel so weak and It was harder than I thought. Every night, I cry myself just to sleep its because everytime there is an aftershock I cannot explain what I feel. I cannot contain what I feel during those moments, I talk to everybody just to ease my anxiety and to forget it for awhile. My faith in God during that time was not strong enough, it is easily be shakened. I felt ashamed to myself knowing that many people know me by how big my faith in God was and all of the sudden I was experiencing such things. What I did is that I pray the rosary every night, and I made it as an habit until now. It helped me a lot especially in my everyday life. Now I more working on my faith, everytime there is something that has happened I just pray to God because I know there is a purpose why it is happening. I calm myself more easily now unlike before, and I want to share to everybody that when we feel like drowning into sorrow, know that Jesus walks on water.

Material Self

We have components of the material self that defines our social status. We have our own material possesions that we can keep as long we want. For my own perspective, I dont think owning material possesions is to be considered as a succesful. If I become succesful someday, I will use to help other people. I want to help in order to be happy, not to buy material possesions just to satisfy myself. Its because I know that when we engage with those things we became a materialistic person we will tend to be more concerned of the tangible things. Are we working towards happiness in life?  If so, we have thousands of examples to see of people who have been "successful" in acquiring material wealth, but who have been miserably empty inside. I want to reach the level of peace and contentment because if we tend to buy something it fades easily and it will leave us feeling empty. I know that in my life, I will never think of the material product,that I will be much happier if I had it. It because I felt a great sense of regret that I bought something and its not useful as much as I thought it was. We are all materialistic to some extent, and there are many material possesions that are helpful and even necessary to us.  But is materialism is not that strong to keep us from focusing on the truly important aspects of our lives. ai dont want to neglect the important parts of myself simply because we're focused strongly on attaining material goods. 

Sexual Self

I have no personal experiences about engaging sexual intercourse but I think we need to be more educated about about sex. I know it is quite a taboo especially to those people who are close minded or has no interest about hearing this. I can personally say that I really dont want to hear about those things before because its someones problem unless you are engaging to it. As I grow older I realised how it is very important to be educated about this whether you are engaging not. Specially now that the temptation is everywhere, we try to copy the things the doings of our peers. Now that the case of HIV/ AIDS and early pregnancy is rising, Our government provides a stronger program of sex education as a solution of this occuring problem. I have realised that we are now provided by the technology in order to prevent teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and all we need to do is to educate ourselves. The RH bill for me is one of the solution of this problem specially to those couple who is not having a family planning. I have seen a lot of families that are experiencing an extreme poverty. When I look with those kids who is suffering with hunger and they are forced to beg for food because of that. It really breaks my heart to see those kids in the streets. That was the point I said to my self that I dont want to experience that with my own children in the future, I will not be getting married when I am still not financially stable regardless of the age, I think about how hard is it to bare a child and cannot provide its own needs.

Physical self

I always think of why we always think about our physical appearances, why do people give their opinions based on what they see outside the box. Without realizing whole context, it affects our psychological well being. Its because we are more concerned on our body images, we tend to think what is the ideal body women should have. It is the point where we compare ourselves to other people and then we feel anxious and unsatisfied. I also have experienced such things and I want to let everybody to know that we should use our voice and influence other people to cut this kind of mentality. We should always appreciate the things that we have, because we are unique in special ways. Let's not think about what people will say about you, because the whole will just disappoint you and destroy you. Lets just be contended on what we have, to avoid health risk just to modify our body. We just have to feel empowered that its not how people will think, its your whole being that you need to appreciate.

Western & Eastern of the Self:

I also believe with the Western self as monotheistic because I only believe one supreme being or only one God. I think in some sort things we adopted behaviours or beliefs from the western countries because we are colonized by many different countries. Although I am thankful that spaniards brought the catholicism here in our country despite the slavery that they did to the Filipinos. On other side, I also agree with Eastern concept of self. Its because even though some religions have there own beliefs they share the same goals, it is to teach every person in our society today to be a good example. Most of the people believes in the Law of Karma even though they are not an hindu. Even myself, I believe that in every actions that we take it will lead to good or bad outcomes on our lives. If we do good things in life, we feel blessed. If we do bad things, we will suffer in the end. It also also the same with the saying of confucious, we should not do to others what we would not want others do unto us. It is the matter of reciprocity, when people shows love to us, we should also show love to them. I think the moral lesson of this whole things is that we should always think that in every action there a consequence.

Psychological Perspective of the Self:

I have so many thoughts on my mind, now that I am studying my dream job. Lets call it my real self, During my Junior High School days there is a plenty of activities in our school where they will assess our capabilities to identify which track or career we are aligned. While processing, there is a question that is frequently asked and that is what course we would like to pursue in college. What's in my mind during that time is not that fixed. The course Optometry is not what I have envisioned in my whole life. I thought of studying BS Economics because I wanted to work at the bank. Later on, the course that I am taking up now is suddenly referred to me, I know its not common because its not other people's interest. But in my case, I suddenly became interested. Everyday I am praying of a sign and I will grab it. And here is it, I grabbed it. The entire Senior High School journey, I never thought becoming something except being an optometrist. Even if it will take 6 years to graduate, I am will to sacrifice it is what I love. I want my family to proud of me and I hope and pray that my grand father will going to witness me graduate. That is my ultimate wish and I will not ask for more. I pray for guidance from our Lord Father God in my Ideal self hopefully, I will survive everything.

Anthropological conceptualization of Self:

When the right time comes, all of us will go through liminality where there is a transition stage from one identity to another. In other words, when we all graduated from college we basically needs to find a job and detach ourselves from our families. In my case, I will not leave my family right away because I need to help them with their needs. I wanted to pay back from all the things that they have sacrificed for me in order to study. Even if I will have my own family, I will still support them no matter what happens. Its because as we all know we have the culture of the Filipinos who accepts and welcome the extended family. I think life without a family will not make you complete as human being. I cannot even see myself getting a boarding house for college its because I easily miss them. Even when I to go to my father's town all by myself and spend there for five days, my first night will always be sad its because I cannot sleep and I keep on thinking of my mom and sister. There is always a time when I choose to stay at home to be with family during sundays when we are complete even though I had already plans with my friends. I will choose them its because it is what makes me happy. We must not forget our families at the peak of our success because they are the one who is there through your up's and down's when no one else was.

Sociological Perspective

Many of us are wondering on ourselves despite the achievements we have accomplished but there is a scar or wound that would really stop us from becoming who we truly are. As a person who is going 19 years of age, I have already encountered some of the difficult things and I've been dealing with it. I often see myself as person who is very happy when I am surrounded with my love ones. I thought that happy side of me will remain because there was a time where I see everything as a dark. I dont want to get along, I prefer staying alone inside our home and just do nothing. It is because I dont understand myself, I find it hard that time to look on the brighter side of who I really was. I feel like there is something missing, I have so many insecurities just like other people, but mine was worst. I tend to focus only on what is in the internet about what is the new trend in the society, where it affects my personality to that point that I became insatiable. The post modern society today has played a big role about prestige symbols. Im so tired of this personality and one day I woke up telling myself on the mirror that I need to fix myself. I have to stand up and tell that I dont have to consume goods that is not for my primarily value and utility. I should not compare myself on what others have that I dont. I have to value things that is worth living. So with all things that has happened in my life, It took so many roads to established my self identity. Its a reminder to all of us that we should not be afraid of asking who we really are. Its because in the end of the day, we are all welcome for a self improvement.

Philosophical Perspective of the Self

There is so many thoughts running in my mind why knowing oneself is important. It never came into my mind what is the importance of knowing myself until the time where I was questioning myself why there was really something that is missing in my life. I never realised that knowing oneself helps me decide properly when it comes to my decision makings. Before, I was not really carefully thinking of what is the consequence of my decisions in short, I was very impulsive during that time. I know it was common for us that there is a certain point on our lives that there is hurdles that will come. After that, we are starting to think of any solutions because it seems like we dont know what to do anymore. The main part of this situation is that, it is only us who can make it right. I started to realize about everything, like maybe I should start getting to know myself more. I started to appreciate the people who surrounds me, no matter how small or big the efforts they try to make in order to support me. By trying to understand ourselves, we will be able to see the essence of what it means to be a human being. We are created as a rational being, we need to think deeply of the things that might make us realize in the end of the day. The whole thing overwhelms my heart with joy that in my early age, I examined my life already because I know what life can be without knowing our purpose and value.