[Required Entry #7] - Compare and Contrast

My Real Self vs. My Ideal Self

It is human nature to feel discontents and unfulfillments within ourselves, and I truly consider this statement positioned beyond shadow of doubts. Due to these discontentments, I personally generated a clear impression of my ideal self if I am going to modify some characteristics and traits of mine that would somehow result to an optimal me. How do my current real self and ideal self differ from each other?

In terms of my personality in reality, I am such a type of person who actually do not care (or a person who seems care less) to the occurrences happening in our country even how important or how serious a certain issue is to our environment. It is absolutely a bad developed oddity of mine, right? Another point is concerned with my academic status. Gladly speaking, a real me genuinely set his academics on the top part of his priorities. I am actually studying hard and whole-heartedly (at the same time) because I knew that the actual measurement of one’s intellectual capacity is defined by how you have acquired a certain knowledge with your heart and mind. The third point is with regard to the physical appearance of my real self; you can visualize me as an average man with the distinction of an average height (5 ft 3 in) and a typical teen-ager with acne in his face. On the last stand, my point circumscribes with my interests. Talking about the negative side of it, I have this little bit addiction on gaming but still considerably controlled. In addition to my interests, I am a music enthusiast and I greatly appreciate different genres of music.

In a more positive view wherein I visualize myself as a perfect me (ideal self), some of my real self’s characteristics are improved while some traits retained. In the scope of my personality, I see myself as a person that is very aware on all important phenomena in his country. With this awareness, he is also concern to some serious issues revolving in his environment and he firmly believes that the righteous time would come for him to be part of the resolution of the said conflicts even in the smallest contribution he can do. In the next point concerning to my academic status, I do want to retain the developed skills and traits of my real self in which I can keep this focus in my academics. While in my physical appearance, I just want to add a little bit height to my real self and reduce some acnes in my face. On the last point, my ideal self can greatly manage his time with respect to his interests, academics, family, friends, etc.

“Nothing is permanent.” It is a fact that most of us have this imagination of their ideal selves. Some realists would say that you can’t change anything God had given you. But in a more strict reality, you can actually modify some part of yourself including your personality, belief, etc. for a better self. It is not really the end to make yourself perfect because nothing is really permanent.

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