Being a Real Person
being a real person
The central business of every human being is to be a real person. We possess by nature the factors out of which personality can be made, and to organize them into effective personal life is every man’s primary responsibility.
Without exaggeration it can be said that frustrated, unhappy people, who cannot match themselves with life, constitute the greatest single tragedy in the world. In mansion and hovel, among the uneducated and in university faculties, under every kind of circumstance people entrusted with building their own personalities are making a mess of it, thereby plunging into an earthly hell.
Three elements enter into a building of personality; heredity environment and personal response. We are not responsible for our heredity; much of our environment we cannot control; but the power to face life with an individual rejoinder that we are responsible for.
Many escape a sense of personal responsibility by lapsing into a mode of emotional fatalism. This is curiously, one of most comfortable moods in which a man can live. If he is automation, he is not responsible for anything.
On the highest level man’s desire to escape responsibility express itself in ascribing all personal qualities to heredity and environment.
When we succeed, when by dint of decision and effort we achieve a desire end, we are sure we had a share in that. We cannot slough off responsibility when we fail. We cannot eat our cake and have it too.
The beginning of worthwhile living is thus to comfort ourselves –unique beings, each of us entrusted with the makings of personality. Yet multitudes of people wrestle with every conceivable factor involve in the human situation before they face their primary problem- themselves. One of my friend a physician told to his patient saying ‘”This is a very serious case; I am afraid you’re allergic to yourself.”
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enchie
March 31st, 2009 at 10:12 pm
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