“Know Thyself”

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This is the blog of someone very close to me. I have had the chance to get to know her for the past couple of months more than any of my friends. Like she states, she is someone who seems to know what she wants and where she wants to go in life, but everything is not what it seems. An advice that her dad gave her inspired her to write blog and inspired me to write mine. “Know thyself”, her dad quoted an ancient Greek inscription, when she felt lost in her thoughts and aspirations. Most of us claim know ourselves better than anyone else but I realized that sometimes we focus on other factors and forget to ask ourselves for our opinions and feelings. This is why is hard to understand what makes us happy, and so easy to get lost in a life made out of everything and everyone but you. I have met many people that demonstrate this simple argument. There are many engineering students who think their salary will buy happiness , anorexic teenagers who think that weighing less than ninety pounds will make them feel happy, and aspiring doctors who feel like the excitement and admiration of their parents will be contagious enough to make it their own. Some adults even think that drinking or smoking will solve their problems instead of making them worst and that marrying someone with a wealth will carry their lives toward a perfect life. Since we don’t know ourselves, many of us have no idea what will make us happy which in effect causes us to settle for things that bring temporary bliss.