Creating your own person

Creating your own person- this is a harder topic. Both to think about, to write about. It's one of those blog posts that may take me a while to write for the above reasons, and because I feel as if I have so much more to learn and add- still.

Understanding who I am has been probably ~50% of what has been plaguing my mental health for years now. I don't think it would too far to say all my life. Just as a child, nothing really is a problem much- yet (heehee don't worry, it will be👺)

I've already written plenty about how I think coming to university has made me more - a person - than ever before (which I mean makes sense, because just being separated from your family forces you to be an independent individual and soul- with your own values, beliefs, viewpoints, etc).

But at least for me, actually being someone, and figuring out who that someone is (omg this is making me think of Po in Kung Fu Panda 3 lol, one of the best movies of all time/my favorites) took a lot more active work on my part.

Like, coming to college was pretty passive. Yes I guess you could say that I had been working towards it all my life, but that's besides the point. The real point I'm trying to make here is that just by coming to college- a passive movement- wasn't enough.

To get into this, I think I will have to get into my mental health issues in general; or maybe that might be a different blog post. Because like I said, this is only 1/2 of my mental health issues.

To know who you are, you have to: (this applies to physical/emotional/psychological aspects)

1. Know what you like

   1. and do what you like

2. Know what you don't like

   1. and not do what you don't like

3. Observe what you like and don't like about other people; adjust/act accordingly

4. Not change who you are based on who you are around

   1. Be a stable person; don't change for others or based on the situation

   2. Don't be an unstable person

5. Know your values, beliefs, preferences, truths, faith, viewpoints

6. Understand who you are and be comfortable with it, as well as comfortable with how you are different/unique/weird from others

   1. Be okay with that

   2. Be okay with who you are

   3. Like yourself (at least a little bit, at least some aspects)