"No man is an island."

A cliche and prominent quote that even a child can tell 'cause indeed, no one cannot live by his or her self alone. We need others as much as they needed us badly. As we grow older, we are learning from each other and that helps us develop ourselves. We see how people show theirselves, deal with difficulties and transcend.

Thus, self-disclosure is also an impressive factor that will hone us to become better. It is a way of sharing genuinely what you feel or even your personal life including the dreams, experiences, and opinions. Keeping these kind of things to yourself alone will create a heavy portion in your heart. Instead of making the possibilities out of impossible things, there is always this burden that will keep you feeble as you make ways in achieving whatever it is that you wanted to. Even if you reached such, you can still feel loss.

The last year of my life taught me one of a kind learnings that can thankfully be my stronghold throughout my journey as an individual who's still chasing her dreams to the fullest. These are self-disclosure, self-awareness and acceptance. Unexpected circumstances keep on happening in life may it be heartbreaking or not most especially amidst a complicated situation. It would be hard battling those all on our own, including me to myself.

We are doomed with diverse problems to solve freaking us out, thus, sharing plays an important role. It's never a crime. Well, I have wonderful circles of friends and a loving family whom I can share my everything with. Exposing my inner self to them gave me priceless feelings, to be loved and valued. It's just that there are things I thought sometimes would be best to keep and battle on my own. Telling others and vice versa how much you're hurting, happy, and feel about a thing is already a great achievement when it comes to how unbeatable a relationship is.

Rejection, criticism, and intimacy are inevitable and we can also conclude 'normal' in today's world. What would be life after all if you'll just keep on cherishing goodness right? You are teased over and over again until you don't have the enough courage to fight back anymore. Yet, these can be your anchor too. Extraordinary eye-openers are usually purified and embraced through such. Fearing these hindrances is relatively showing them how frail you are fooling yourself you can't even though you really can. Aside from that, acceptance will help you unveil the best ways. Say what you wanted to say and let them feel what you wanted them to feel. After all, God gave us those wonderful people in our lives as His instruments to inspire and support us.

On a different perspective, self-awareness is a necessity. As we strive to meet our material needs, it is absolutely crucial encompassing numerous of benefits. Examining ourselves is a great boon to identify our strengths and weaknesses not just on ourselves alone but also towards those people whom we socialize with everyday. We all have our limitations but that doesn't mean we already can't. Indeed, no one has ever been able to find a limit to human potential, which is as long as you never let your guard down in my own experience. We can change predictable things to happen such as downfalls when we are aware of what we only can and changing what shouldn't be done. It serves as a guide on where must the target be spotted.

Before, this helped me a lot in choosing the career I should pursue here in college. Self-awareness contributed the most in my career choice as I've considered my self-interests and skills. Thanks to those different programs during my High School years because I was able to discover mine deeply. Today, it enables me to discourage my weaknesses and encourage my strengths more to prevail in my college journey. Engaging myself there is not just an easy-peasy. Well, I am almost close enough to my dreams! Whatever it is that comes along the way, I will not be shaken because I know I am not alone.

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