Why don’t we see ourselves the way as others do?
As Leonard Ravenhill says: “There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”
It is quite tricky and interesting question that needs to be considered.
I am definitely sure that every second person has faced prejudicial attitude towards himself, at least once in his life. And every time we can find the way, how others perceive us in their vision, amusing and intriguing. That is why we are kind of embarrassed if people say that they really enjoy something about us that we do not. For instance, it could be your personality, appearance, manner and the way you speak, the way you treat someone else or the way you conduct yourself.
And because of these other visions about you that give you a great opportunity to look at yourself from the other side and change your perspective.
Well, speaking of myself, I am a type of person who is always embarrassed getting any compliments or hearing someone likes something in me that I do not think it is remarkable and it is not because I am trying to be fishing for compliments or something like that. I just do not feel the same way, but sometimes it lets me understand I should revise the way I see myself and listen to the ones how others can see me.
And it is completely amazing how we perceive each other. And the main reason why we are confused getting compliments from others about things that we do not like in ourselves is when we look at our flaws comparing them to others’, we make ourselves feel the way that we are not perfect which is not definitely true. We need to remember that everyone of us has his own flaws and it does not mean it is bad or anything else. It does mean that we are different and that is the beauty of it.
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Why don’t we see ourselves as others do?
As Leonard Ravenhill says: “There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”This is quite a tricky and interesting question that needs to be considered.
I am quite sure that every second person has faced prejudice at least once in their* life. And each time we can see how others see us; sometimes amusing, sometimes intriguing. That is why we are slightly embarrassed when people say that they really enjoy something about us that we do not. For instance, it could be your personality, appearance, manner or the way you speak, the way you treat others or the way you conduct yourself.
And because of these other visions about you, you are given a great opportunity to look at yourself from the other side and change your perspective.
Well, personally speaking, I am the type of person who always reddens from compliments or hearing that someone likes something unremarkable in me, and this is not because I am fishing for compliments or something like that. I just do not feel the same way, but sometimes it lets me understand that I should revise how I see myself and see how others see me.
And it is completely amazing how we perceive each other. And the main reason why we are confused getting compliments from others about things that we do not like in ourselves, is that when we compare our flaws to others', we make ourselves feel imperfect, which is not necessarily true. We need to remember that each of us has their own flaws and that that does not mean it is bad or anything else. It does mean that we are different and that is the beauty of it.
*or, his life. Your English is perfectly good, but modern thinking often writes 'their life' for this. I don't know how English examiners want it.
Very well written!
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