Showing posts with label self-esteem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-esteem. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Why Self-image is the main factor influencing your entire life


Life, as we all understand it to be does not matter so much better the courage you put into it and if you want to get on with it in its entire ramification, there is no reason why, you should not do your best to improve your human existence through by working so well on your self-image. This is because this inevitable phenomenon has painstakingly passed through the screening board of so many psychologists and philosophers many centuries ago and it continues to generate so much controversies by the present day highly reputed men and women of knowledge and wisdom as the records indicate.

While it is true that there are innumerable points of arguments as to what self-image is really about, the only point that is clear as water here is that the controversial phenomenon cannot be divorced from the way someone feels about him or herself and which accounts for his or her perception about the rest of the people . To some people, however, it may mean the way they posit themselves in the general world view and which make them stand out of the general crowd in the arena of life itself while to some it is the general way of seeing the other side of the coin and which is peculiar to them alone.

There is no gainsaying that those who entertains positive thoughts about themselves always expect encomiums and in most cases undue praises from every Tom, Dick and Harry while they so much resent whatever may induce negative opinion about them from the rest of the people not minding the fact that there is always two sides to a coin.

It may not be clear to so many people that image is a full-fledged spirit just like a normal human being and it is the way you mould it that it will boost your ego and this is the main reason why everything must be done to ensure that it does not suffer of any form degradation both of the body and also of the spirit so as to avoid its negative impact. If by any stroke of misadventure one allows one’s self-image to suffer negative tendencies from the neighbors, putting it back to shape is always impossible. This is because image is like a mirror or breakable vessel which, if falling on the ground, cannot be put together again.

It is quite common with women that if they regard themselves as not being able to live up to their own material and social expectations, they feel so dejected and always maintain a high degree of self-pity particularly when their husbands are of little or no help to improve the situation and in the long run resort to anti-social practices. This is because they seem to be mindful of the fact that life has neither been a bed of roses nor a bush of thorns forgetting also that behind every cloud there is always a silver lining and what so what matters is a little bit of patience and much wisdom and the reason why self-image is the main factor influencing one’s entire life cannot be farfetched.