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    Happy Me

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    The document discusses the author's journey to understanding their true self and finding happiness. As a child, the author was easily influenced by others and based their self-image on external opinions. However, over time the author began to question who they really were and felt lost. After facing failures and conflicts, the author realized they could not find the answers or handle problems alone. Through turning to God during difficult experiences, the author was able to gain insights about themselves and overcome challenges. The author concludes that true happiness and knowledge of one's self comes from having a relationship with God, not from living according to other people's expectations.

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    The document discusses the author's journey to understanding their true self and finding happiness. As a child, the author was easily influenced by others and based their self-image on external opinions. However, over time the author began to question who they really were and felt lost. After facing failures and conflicts, the author realized they could not find the answers or handle problems alone. Through turning to God during difficult experiences, the author was able to gain insights about themselves and overcome challenges. The author concludes that true happiness and knowledge of one's self comes from having a relationship with God, not from living according to other people's expectations.

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    The document discusses the author's journey to understanding their true self and finding happiness. As a child, the author was easily influenced by others and based their self-image on external opinions. However, over time the author began to question who they really were and felt lost. After facing failures and conflicts, the author realized they could not find the answers or handle problems alone. Through turning to God during difficult experiences, the author was able to gain insights about themselves and overcome challenges. The author concludes that true happiness and knowledge of one's self comes from having a relationship with God, not from living according to other people's expectations.

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    Happy Me

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    Melanie Samsona
    The document discusses the author's journey to understanding their true self and finding happiness. As a child, the author was easily influenced by others and based their self-image on external opinions. However, over time the author began to question who they really were and felt lost. After facing failures and conflicts, the author realized they could not find the answers or handle problems alone. Through turning to God during difficult experiences, the author was able to gain insights about themselves and overcome challenges. The author concludes that true happiness and knowledge of one's self comes from having a relationship with God, not from living according to other people's expectations.

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    ‘Happy Me’

    Self is the product of happiness.


    After our thorough discussion about the philosophical perspective of the self, I came to
    have realizations about myself also. Knowing myself is not just merely knowing my don’ts and
    likes, hobbies and behaviors. I have this idea since then that I know and I understand myself
    more than anyone else. No one could ever know and understand myself better than I am. But
    these perspective of mine was changed since I started to face harder challenges and
    experiences as I grew older.
    When I was still a kid (ages 9 to 12 years old), my views in life were been easily
    influenced by other people such as my family, friends, and teachers. I always tend to listen and
    do what others would suggest for me to do knowing that it was for my own good. I easily get
    swayed by the opinions of others. I always compared myself to others. I acted according to
    what others are expected me to do. But then, as I stepped the age of maturity, confusions and
    doubts are started to grew about my true self. Until such point that I’d realized that I’m not
    happy anymore of what I am doing with myself. I asked myself, “Who really am I?”, and relying
    to other’s opinions and having fear of their expectations couldn’t help me to answer that
    question. That is when I started to seek and know myself deeper.
    I started to experience greater failures, problems at home and school, and conflicts with
    other people. There I realized that I am not good in handling my problems. I felt so down and
    lost. I couldn’t think of any decisions. I cannot even decide for myself. However, in the end I
    was able to surpass those difficulties and left me with so much learnings and realizations about
    myself and in life, because out of all those problems, I am able to seek God’s presence.
    Knowing my true self is also knowing my happiness. Happiness for me is where I feel
    safe, strong, loved, accepted, and fearless. And I believed that I totally found myself after I
    knew and accepted God in my life. Having a relationship with God helped me to know and
    understand myself deeper. Confusions and doubts were gone as I started to live by the words
    of God. God gave me direction. With Him, I stopped questioning myself. In God I found myself
    and I found my happiness. It is true as what St. Augustine had explained that man’s goal is
    happiness, and only in God can man attain true and eternal happiness. I also agreed with St.
    Augustine that human alone, without God, are bound to fail.
    Now that I have God in my life, the opinions of other didn’t matter to me anymore. God
    taught me not to live by how this world lives, but live by His words. Knowing myself is not
    others to do. I am me because God is with me.

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