What do you think of...

Have you ever looked at someone and wonder how they see them self? Or have you ever wondered how people look at you. We all keep pictures of ourselves in our minds and sometimes those pictures really differ from what we actually are to other people. My mind runs to a friend of mine who thinks he is suave with the ladies, and the life of the party. And he is, in his mind of course. This is not to say that he is quite a cool person to lime with but the fact that he tries to live up to who he is in his mind really actually makes him less cool than he could actually be. There is another case of this girl I know, who in her mind, seems to be not as popular as everyone else and even though she is quite an attractive person her image of herself could really hamper her interactions with persons.

This brings me to myself, I would love to see me as others see me, but alas I cannot. There are some times, though that I do things that I feel that I am actually looking on at myself doing what I am doing and I think, why am I doing this? Its an amazing out of body type of experience that words cannot express and you may only be able to comprehend if you have experienced this yourself.

Then there is the situation whereby what someone tells you affects your self perception. The unfortunate thing about this circumstance is that the negative usually wins over and you being to eat away at yourself over what ten unimportant naysayers have told you about yourself over the one positive person's remarks about you. Even one simple misunderstanding between words communicated have the power to ruin someone's day, and maybe even existence. Talk about life and death being in the power of the tongue!

We all have been guilty however, knowing or unknowingly, of telling someone something that has penetrated their soul's armour and pierced their soul's core. We must all live on because our lives do have purpose. It is not a bad thing to possess that level if arrogance that if someone were to say something bad to you it would really not matter to you. In the case of some they may even use those negative comments as petrol to fuel their ambitions, but few in existence have been ordinaned theirself mentally to achieve such feats.

And none who ever walked the earth (save Jesus) have never let another person get them down.