The Awesomeness of Self-Reference

Frame of reference par excellence

Personal Assessment

I’ve spent….excuse me, wasted an unreasonable amount of my time worrying about how others thought of me. To that end, I’ve wasted an unreasonable amount of time not being me.  And as awesome as I may have been perceived to be by any number of people, if I was not genuinely me then I was not really that awesome.  I may have successfully portrayed a character and won your approval. I may have played the role and made you smile. But the second that I removed the mask and the costume and discarded the script – who could I say that I was?

Conclusion

Awesomeness follows self-actualization. Self-actualization involves being you on your own terms and doing it to the fullest.

Consultation

When your self-image is based solely on the feedback that you receive from others – in the form of acceptance, praise, and appreciation, or even envy, disdain, and malice – then you become secondary in your own life. You are merely a reflection of someone else’s ideas and intentions. You are a character in someone else’s play. There is nothing awesome about that.

Trivia

I like brevity.