just a quick thought on perceiving yourself
I think what’s really dangerous for young people is parents, teachers, friends and relatives falsely mirroring their actions and thereby providing them with a self-image detached from reality. I know it’s hard to define what a person is really like because everyone perceives the others in the context of their own experiences (e.g. your mother sees you as someone in the middle of a web of unconscious expectations which stem from different sources - her own childhood and relationship with her parents, the lives of her peers and society itself through the media etc.), but this effectively makes a realistic self-image impossible. And a lot depend on having that, self-esteem and happiness for example.
Am I rambling? It’s totally unedited. To cut a long story short, there are too many distortions before our eyes, like dozens of layers of water, or of glass. And I’m sure we should be aware of their existence.
This is what I pondered whilst walking home today.
