This week's topic is on Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem!

Hello Everyone! This week's topic is on Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem. Well, let me start with the definition of Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem. Self-Awareness is to be Aware of One's behavior, attitude, personality or individuality. As for Self-Esteem it is a person's respect for himself. Personally for myself, I do have a relatively high self esteem because i have had much exposure in life. Looking back at my secondary school days, I remember myself being on stage giving speeches, performing, giving talks and so on. In addition, I was part of my school's publicity team which publicizes my secondary school to the primary schools in Yishun. This Road shows also built my self esteem as only a handful of pupils were selected. This caused me to have a really high respect for myself. Hence I would say that I have a relatively high self esteem. However, it does not necessarily mean that if one has a high self esteem in certain areas of his life means that he has a high self esteem in all aspects of his life. Personally, I do not have a relatively low self esteem too. You may think that I am contradicting myself but no, I’m not. In fact, I think many people do feel the same way as me. This is because, like I mentioned above, in different areas of your life, you would have different levels of self esteem. For myself, I have a low self esteem in terms of courtship. This is due to unpleasant experiences with girls that I used to crush, hence, I am always seeing myself as someone whom a girl wouldn't want as a boyfriend. (Eh, please don’t make fun of me.haha.I'm trying to build up my self esteem in this area of my life) haha. So this is an example of me which shows that what I said above is true. Self esteem is very important in life as it helps you to go very far. What do I mean by this? For example, if I have a high self esteem in terms of my work life, then I would keep aiming to be better and I would become better as I would work toward that aim. On the Flipside, If I were to have a low self esteem in the same context, I would not aim far or high because I will always be thinking whether I would even make it and I’m sure I would not make it because I would not be putting in all my effort into making it work as I myself have doubts whether I would reach that aim. Hence I think that a having a high self esteem is important. As for self awareness, I personally do have self awareness as I do know the flaws in my life as well as the talents that I have. I have many flaws, who doesn’t have? I know the flaws that I have and therefore, I am trying to change. One example is that I get quite impatient with my students (I’m a tuition teacher) when they do not understand after I have explained 3 to 4 times. Well, I know that being a tuition teacher, I must have a lot of patience, and therefore, I am really trying to change and be more patient with my students. I do know my talents too. An example is that I can play many musical instruments. I can play the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, the bass and the drums. In addition, I can write songs too. Also, I am aware of all the things that I like to do and the way I treat my friends and how I handle the work that I get. Therefore, I can safely say that I have self awareness. However, I have to say that there are still many things that I do not know about myself and am still discovering. I am sure that most people feel the same too. This is because, being young and not having much experiences, we would not have discovered all our flaws and talents. In a nutshell, I think that it is important to have both self awareness and self esteem as they would be of much help in our lives and would really bring us far in life.



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signing off,
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