Finding peace with yourself

Madam,

$ccording to Russian psychologist /ev 9ygotsky, we become ourselves through others. +e said this was so because our ability to think and reason on an individual level stems from social activities in the course of our development that foster our innate cognitive abilities.

$braham Maslow asserts that what a man can be he must be. $nd if ‘to be that self which one truly is’ according to 6oren .ierkegaard, then life is all that much simpler if we find peace with who we are. 8nfortunately, in the world of villains and superheroes, the optimism of the former is always met by the latter’s mission to always block the villains ambitions.

QUESTIONS

Throughout recorded history, Tuestions have been posed about why we are here and what the purpose of our lives is. $s humans, we are always seeking perfection to acTuire satisfaction and when one does not achieve such they are not happy with themselves or rather despair, which then leads to depression.

+owever, villains do not stick their heads into the sand but lo and behold, there is that superhero who only becomes so by virtue of crushing his nemesis’s dreams. :e are what we are by virtue of that which we do and unlike villains, we suffer the ignominy of tucking our tails between our legs and looking for ways to justify why we are what we know we should not be.

6o, in order to grow long-term, we need to eat short-term as manager of the &entury Jack :elch said while he was still *eneral (lectric &(2.

PERSEVERANCE

9illains may be seen as the evil forces; the destroyers of truth, peace and Tuashers of peace, but , admire their perseverance and resolve to dig deep and find new ways to ‘take over the world’. 9illains are doers They scheme and at the end of the day laugh their lungs out while superheroes wait upon the scheme to come into play for them to take action; should that not happen, it would mean superheroes would have nothing to do, and thus represent the faction of people who wait for change. ,n order for one to succeed, they have to learn to turn every disaster into an opportunity ± an art practiced by the world’s first Dollar-billionaire, John Davidson Rockefeller. These are one of the foundations of working with a vision. ‘$s the world turned to electric lighting from kerosene oil lamps, his business came under threat’.

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