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Self Image.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

09:30 / 28.02.02

Is it important to you? How important? Why? How do you keep it intact? What do you think of it? Why do you do it? What do you do? Does it affect your life? Do you really try? And so on... and on...

Trijhaos

09:47 / 28.02.02

Unfortunately, in real life, I have major self-image issues.

I figure self image is a relatively important thing. If you're not confidant in your self then you can't expect other people to depend on you.

I haven't kept my self-image intact. Its a broken thing, pitifully mewling like a maimed kitten.

Yeah, I actually think it has affected my life somewhat. I think my shattered self-image has affected both my social and academic life.

I found this earlier today. Its an interesting essay on self-image.

The Monkey

09:59 / 28.02.02

A fellow maimed kitten.

I used to have huge problems with self-image, mine being that I was an emotional wreck, yet was trained to conceal it under a stiff-upper-lip and a facade of control. To do otherwise would be wrong, and worse yet, impolite. The result was people leaned on me for support, and out of a sense of duty I'd prop them up...to my own detriment. Call me Captain Codependence....

bitchiekittie

10:13 / 28.02.02

I always say self-image (especially body image) has little to do with logic. so many things factor into it, most of them pitifully meaningless in the big picture yet they still manage to have a huge impact on you personally. I still manage to pepper my enormous self-love trip with plenty of doubt and worry. I suppose a healthy flavoring of questioning yourself keeps your ego in check, makes you bearable?

dunno

pointless and uncalled for

11:12 / 28.02.02

Oh yes it's very important to me. I'm a dumb cunt and it's important for me to remember that at all times. It affects my life because at any given time I could potentially fuck everything up and so I have to pay a lot of attention.

Largely, I can't be trusted.

Sax

11:21 / 28.02.02

My problem is I have a highly-inflated self-image. I think I'm fantastic.
Which I'm evidently not.

higuita

11:32 / 28.02.02

no. you are. and so am I.

Fist Fun

11:42 / 28.02.02

I suppose self-image is important to me. I think I'm great, in a kind of flawed loser geek kind of way. I mean that as a good thing.

higuita

11:48 / 28.02.02

Exactly - you have to remember, it's not that it's a bad thing... [pause for light to shine on teeth]
...it's a good thing.

I'm fantastic, and so are you.

(as an aside, when a colleague was teaching a class of would-be journalists, she said a useful personal characteristic is arrogance. Then she looked directly at me and raised her eyebrows in a meaningful way. I never did find out what she meant).

[ 28-02-2002: Message edited by: mr y ]

Re-Set

13:19 / 28.02.02

My self-image, as I suspect many others here might also be, is balanced between a terribly over-inflated ego and a horribly deflated self-esteem. Yet, I'm still seen as arrogant or conceited by many of my peers.

So, I have a small plaque on my wall (picked at random from a bag of goodies a guide once brought over) with a painting of the Narcissus flower and it's accompnaying definition--

Knowledge of the World; a life lived unafraid.

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