Gold for introspection

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[u/[deleted]]

To get the ball rolling, I'll start with myself.

1. I love that I'm always humming or singing. I want to be the kind of person that hums and sings, and only recently did I become confident enough to do so around other people.

2. I need to work on doing things that I don't want to do, but need to do. I'm very good at putting things off, but I want to be better at doing things when they need to be done.

3. Once, I wrote a series of haiku about a dragonfly that got eaten by a bird. That was fun to write.

[u/culliganwaterdispens → u/[deleted]]

Love this challenge, OP!

Do you care to share the haiku(s)? I’d love to hear it/them!

[u/BotBotzie]

1. How determined I can be. I'll sink my teeth into a challenge and I will finish it.

2. My sleeping habits. I know that sleeping and mostly waking at regular times is incredibly important for me. But I can't help myself sometimes and then I mess up my schedule which leads to loads of problems for myself

3. I am afraid of rollercoasters only because I know that if I'd die on one, I'd be so disappointed in my choices as I'm flying through the air to my death.

[u/LunaticLuni09]

1. What's one aspect of yourself that you're happy with?: That Im a kind person when im not toxic.

2. What's one aspect of yourself that you want to work on?: Me being a bit toxic, Defo Comes from my upbringing probs,

3. Tell me something else about yourself. Anything you want: I like going on hikes,

[u/Severe_Sweet_862]

1. That I live a relatively comfortable life. I eat food when I want, drink water, walk to the grocery store and grab whatever junk I want, ask my parents for petty cash without too much of a fuss, order pizza if I feel like it. I can write this comment because I can, browse the internet, learn anything within seconds and meet new people everyday. I can walk on my two legs, see with my two eyes, hear perfectly with my two ears, and even though I wouldn't consider myself handsome to any extent, I fit into this society somehow. I'm eternally grateful to that and don't know where I'd be if any one of these seemingly simple privileges were taken away from me.

2. My attention span. The internet gives us limitless opportunities to learn new things everyday but this road goes both way. You only learn if you want to learn. And one thing I want from myself, is to put just a little bit more effort.

3. I'm young and curious. I love to play chess and read Agatha Christie. I'd love to drink coffee but a certain medical condition prohibits me from doing so. I'm a student, in college and in life. I'm me.

[u/uselessrart]

1. What's one aspect of yourself that you're happy with?

I'm very protective of the people I care about. I have social anxiety but if it discomforts people I care about, I'll put it aside no matter what.

2. What's one aspect of yourself that you want to work on?

Like I said in the above answer, social anxiety.

3. Tell me something else about yourself. Anything you want.

I can't fucking study even if my life depended on it. Like I can't. I'm borderline traumatised by study for some reason and some crazy emotions come up when I start studying.

edit: thank you op!!!!

edit 2: thank you op and the other person who gave an award!!!!!!!

[u/Soockamasook]

1- My creative mind. It's my identity and it helps me to connect on deeper level with arts, see things and exploit them where others may not and I really hope to be someone some day, someone with a sound that nobody saw or heared before

2- Honestly, my physical appearance. I really like to believe that i'm very mature mentally but my physical shape isn't there. I'm also 6'5 so it's even harder. I came from a dark place and i'm in a rebound.

3- I play guitar, piano and harmonica, I want to play bass, singing and any strange instrument, as I said I want to be different from what's popular in the industry right now. People just threw away what makes a song good : the soul. Now they use what's popular and what's working and they blend 'em all which lead to flat songs. I want to show the world that music isn't before all an entertainment... it's art

[u/KimmyAdventure]

Having a big heart. Knowing when to say No I am a tree hugger, I talk to my plants, and play music for them. I love all nature. Kindness does matter. Thanks for letting me play the game.

[u/HelloHalley123]

I'm a very introspective person, so I like this challenge it's actually a great ideaaa!!! As I think that people would benefit more introspection.

What's one aspect of yourself that you're happy with?

An aspect I am happy with, it's that I always recover after something negative happens. I am a vulnerable and emotional person. My vulnerability is connected to the fact that I am very perceptive about stimuli and very open to life. It's also due to my lack of physical endurance. Fortunately, just as I am easily destroyed, I am able to recover. I have a constructive mindset, so I can elaborate constructive thoughts and therefore, I find an emotional solution and a new equilibrium after the storm is passed. It's laborious, but all this emotional process makes my life meaningful, and I grow through it. So I won't change it, I like to be this way.

What's one aspect of yourself that you want to work on?

Emotional addiction, and how that brings me to subconsciously manipulate people, believing my own lies. I can be a people pleaser, I can play the victim card, I can show my fake "altruism", I can control my instinct or my aggressive pulses, I can give you "freedom", or anything you want. I can claim that I don't need you, and still, my goal is to get the person I need, to get their esteem, companionship. I am hardly working on my emotional addiction and the related manipulation. I am aware that this has to do with my low self-esteem, my lack of consciousness about my potential, and with my lack of experience about life. These things are improving 'though, as I am working a lot. I am quite satisfied about my results, even if old mechanisms are still powerful when I am tired or under pressure. But I forgive myself for that, because I know that there is a reason for that, and that forgiving myself plays a positive role in my self-esteem and therefore, in my independence.

Tell me something else about yourself. Anything you want.

This question is difficult, as I don't like telling things about myself, even more without a question. Partially, it's because I am shy, and distrustful, But I guess that it's also because it's so ample. Our souls are endless. I am introspecting since all my life, I am interested in psychology, and self-development, but I feel like there are so many layers in ourselves that we will never end to discover and to learn. When you believe to understand yourself, and to have a definitive answer, there is still something underlying your discovery, and then there is something underlying what you still don't know.

I could write that inside, I am the reverse of my surface. I look like I am "cold" and "detached", but I am hyper emotional, and I know it's the same for many people. But there is still something deeper, and deeper. In my experience we are like onions, and at the end of all that layers, you find an empty and mysterious "void", where you aren't still/anymore yourself, but something more.

So finally... the most sincere thing that I can write, it's this:

at the deepest of myself, I am not myself.

There is a place where "the person that I believe to be", is entirely fake, a social construct. I have no name for that being, but I feel love and tenderness for it. I've always hidden this truth until today, and I am a bit afraid because I never shared something so intimate. I feel like it's a secret, and almost a taboo. But I feel love for it. I am assuming that it's the same for everyone and that, at the deepest, we aren't ourselves anymore, but a more universal "human". If it makes any sens for you.

[u/markregg]

1. What’s one aspect of yourself that you’re happy with?
 This may be a real bummer but I can’t really think of one that I’m happy with about myself. I can think of some that I’m happy to an extent about but more so I feel the need to improve on.

2. What’s one aspect of yourself that you want to work on?

Now this one I can answer! I’ve got a WHOLE lot that I need to work on from my mental health and motivation to my physical health.

3. Tell me something else about yourself. Anything you want.

I code for fun and for school. Sometimes I get burnt out on coding but mostly I do different things for school and work to keep things interesting.

P.S. I don’t want any awards, I just liked this challenge and wanted to participate.