Why knowing ourselves is important.

“The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.”

Toni Collette

It's always good to introspect and know ourselves more than how others would do. There is a need to do some self-awareness and see what we are lacking in our lives. One of the importance of knowing who we truly are is for us to see the worth and value in us so that others' opinions about us wouldn't matter, especially one which has to do with negative criticism.

When we know ourselves better, we would be independent of our opinion and trying to seek validation from others won't be a problem for us since we know what we are capable of doing. Also, we would know which path in life to choose because we won't have to rely on others to choose for us.

Being in introspect will help us see the right path to go through searching through our inner heart and mind, seeing what interests us. This will surely bring out the real us as we discover what we have an interest in. It would be easier to identify and recognize our passion.

When we know ourselves better, it will be easier to discover our flaws and mistakes and be able to work on them. When we are too busy watching other people's lives, it will be difficult to see where we are faulting because we would be busy seeing others' mistakes and condemning them. Working on our flaws will make us better people because we can make amends before it's too late.

Do you know another beauty of knowing ourselves? It helps us see that part of us that has been hidden. Since we are too busy checking other people's life and success, we don't realize the gift that is hidden in us and when we suddenly realize this, we get surprised that we can do something like this.

I never knew I could write so easily without being taught when my sister introduced me to a platform some years back. I said to myself “So, you have this gift in you?”. If I hadn't taken time to understand what my sister was telling me then, I wouldn't know I can write.

At that moment, we begin to know our actions whether good or bad. When we are in introspection, we would understand our actions better. We would know if we are doing the right or wrong thing which will make us act the needful immediately.

When we give time to know ourselves better, we will know the pattern we keep repeating each day to change the routine to a newer one. Giving time to ourselves is important to change many parts of us and see the right thing to be the best.

Then, we identify our behaviours and take away the bad ones because, at that point, we will understand that our behaviours shape us as an individual. Imbibing the right attitude and behaviours towards life can change our lives for the better.

Another beautiful benefit is that we would know what is toxic for us; either our friendship, relationship, work etc and we would start setting clear boundaries in our lives. By then, we would know what to allow and not to allow in our lives since we know our lives are more important to embrace good and healthy things as it affects us positively.

At that point, we would realize how far we have come. Looking at the past, to the present, we would realize that there has been a big difference and change, as this will help us show gratitude to God for how far we have come. We would know how much stronger we are to have conquered those challenges in our lives in the past.

No matter what life throws at us, we would always get up because we know that we are stronger and never giving up won't be an option to us.

The truth is that we won't know all these until we create time to know ourselves and think about where we started and how it has shaped us in becoming who we are today.

Thanks for your time.

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