Do you like you?

[Holdfast]

I feel I'm progressing well down the road to self-actualisation/individuation. It is a lifelong - if not longer(!) - journey, but I think I'm doing very well so far.

You've always seemed confident in your self and your abilities to me, unless that's just your professionalism coming through.

It's because I like myself that I'm confident, but that confidence in myself also means that I know I can be even better in the future.

Besides, the end point of individuation is something close to divinity. I'm good. But not quite that good. Yet.

 

[Amaris]

I don't think liking oneself and still wanting to improve yourself are mutually exclusive things. Anyway, that's about where I stand.

I agree, sometimes though, I mix self esteem with self improvement. I don't mean to, but it falls under the same heading in my own mental dictionary for some reason.

I feel I'm progressing well down the road to self-actualisation/individuation. It is a lifelong - if not longer(!) - journey, but I think I'm doing very well so far.

You've always seemed confident in your self and your abilities to me, unless that's just your professionalism coming through.

It's because I like myself that I'm confident, but that confidence in myself also means that I know I can be even better in the future.

Besides, the end point of individuation is something close to divinity. I'm good. But not quite that good. Yet.

I only want to be Jesus so I can turn water into wine. Oh, and walk on water. That would be sweet.

 

[Holdfast]

I only want to be Jesus so I can turn water into wine. Oh, and walk on water. That would be sweet.

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I love myself more than words can express.

 

[Amaris]

I only want to be Jesus so I can turn water into wine. Oh, and walk on water. That would be sweet.

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

I feel terrible that I laughed.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

Well at least you can outrun them.

 

[Goliath]

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

Well at least you can outrun them.

Across water, if necessary.

 

[Holdfast]

I love myself more than words can express.

Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty and beyond what can be valued, rich or rare?

I only want to be Jesus so I can turn water into wine. Oh, and walk on water. That would be sweet.

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

I feel terrible that I laughed.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfslY_AvhLw[/yt]

 

[RandyS]

I only want to be Jesus so I can turn water into wine. Oh, and walk on water. That would be sweet.

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

I feel terrible that I laughed.

Should I feel terrible that AS a cripple, I didn't get offended?

 

[iguana_tonante]

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

Well at least you can outrun them.

Across water, if necessary.

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?

 

[Jetfire]

I don't like myself much. There's a lot I would like to change about me.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ We like you. Believe in us.

I love myself more than words can express.

Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty and beyond what can be valued, rich or rare?

Oh, that only begins to cover it.

 

[ITL]

I can be a bit of a sad pillock at times, but I counterbalance it by being wonderful, lovely, charming and above all, modest.

 

[Emher]

I've gotten to like myself over the last year or so. I've definetly got room for a lot of improvement, but I n o longer think I'm so pititiful I should just kill myself, so that's progress.

 

[Goji]

Eh. I guess.

 

[Ood Sigma]

Well, there's a lot of things about myself that I'd like to change, but ultimately I think that if I could meet myself, I'd want to be friends with me. Over the years I've discovered that, with a few exceptions, I really don't have as much in common with those I consider friends as I once thought.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Although I like myself, I know that if I met myself (Star Trek style) I would immediately hate the other me. I'd see everything I dislike in myself and nothing else.

 

[Ood Sigma]

Although I like myself, I know that if I met myself (Star Trek style) I would immediately hate the other me. I'd see everything I dislike in myself and nothing else.

See, I'd see all the common interests and be glad to have someone I could talk about almost anything with. The things I consider to be faults in myself aren't really things that would affect a friendship much.

 

[thestrangequark]

Sure, but all those lepers wanting to touch you would get tiresome real quick.

And don't get me started on the cripples.

Well at least you can outrun them.

Across water, if necessary.

This whole exchange made me laugh out loud. Thanks guys!


As to the topic at hand, I am full of self-loathing unfortunately. But no self-pity. I hate pity. I don't really spend much time pondering my perceptions of myself, though. Maybe if I did I could improve them.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't really hate myself. I have self-apathy more than anything else. I've always had a hard time making a distinction between liking/loving oneself and being *in* love with oneself, like a Narcissism complex.