How Can We Know Ourselves?

Submitted by swarut on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 23:39

Have you ever felt something strange about yourself?

There is the idiom saying that no one knows yourself as much as you do. But how exactly do we know ourselves? It is hard to tell and the answers are vary. For me, I think I know more than 90%, but is this really right?

I thought that I can withstand loneliness, I thought I will be ok to be alone. I do not think I would feel lonely. This is what I understand myself until last 2 years ago. I was left and I began to feel loneliness. It is sad and tormented. How can I feel this way? I thought I do not care how other people think of me, but deeply, I want to be accepted. There are more and more feeling that may be ambivalence.

I then wonder, how can we know ourselves more?
If we all knew exactly how ourselves are, the world may get better. We may know what we should do, we may understand our roles and values than ever. But the next question is, just how many people want to find theirselves?