Are you the person you always wanted to be?

Question

What I mean is if you are happy with whom you are, or do you wish to change some things about yourself

Answer 1

I'm glad you brought this up, because this is something I've been thinking a lot about lately.

Honestly, No. I'm not, exactly. In certain ways, yes. I've always held myself to high moral standards. Not in some "traditional" ways relating to sexual morality, religiosity, etc. But in regards to how I treat others, yes. So, I'm proud of that. However, there's a lot of things I wanted to try, a lot of things I wanted to accomplish, but never did because I allowed others to convince me they were silly pursuits. But I find that years, later, I'm still haunted by what I never attempted, and what might have been.

I've come to realize that it's better to follow your bliss, and cherish your interests and loves, than to be swayed to much by what is "practical." I have regrets that are too late to make up for. I always wished I'd had the going away to a private college experience. However, my parents didn't want me to, and convinced me I had no chance of doing so without their support. I do wish I had tried harder to make that happen for myself.

There are other dreams I'm now thinking I would like to revive. I hope to work on becoming the person I used to be, who had the courage to try new things and believe more was possible than I do now.

Answer 2

I seem to learn the most important lessons in life "the hard way." If this could be something I could change, I would! I think of all the mistakes I've made in my lifetime, and the cost and consequences, and sometimes I wish I could turn back the hands of time and live my life over again. But I know that I wouldn't have the knowledge and the wisdom I do now if I hadn't gone through the things that I have gone through. Am I the person I always wanted to be? Yes, and no. For most of my life I struggled to learn things that have made me who I am today. I'm 37 years old now. It's taken me most of my life to figure out who I am, and what I want to do with my life, and to have the inner resources to help me attain my goals. I am now, where I want to be. If I could change anything, I would have wanted to acquire what I have learned a long time ago. Perhaps I could have made more progress, quicker progress, if that were possible. But the reality is, we're not born with all of this wisdom. For some, like me, it takes years and years to acquire. But I have strength, hope, wisdom and endurance that I didn't have before, so yes.....I am now the person I always wanted to be. I have purpose. I have well-being. I have direction. I have goals- I'm making progress toward achieving, and toward self-actualization. I have the love of my family. I feel very fortunate, indeed.

Answer 3

There are always things about myself that I wish I could improve. Sometimes I wish I could be better at sports, or a little taller, or that I could draw more than a stick figure! lol

When I have the urge for self-improvement, I'll focus on something that will give me pride to have accomplished, like picking up my rock climbing stuff for once and finishing a tougher route. I try not to let the things I can't change about myself bother me too much.

Feeling like I can strike a balance between what I'm good at, what I can make better and what I have to live with is part of what makes me happy with myself.

Answer 4

The only thing that I would change is that I wish that I had been as confident and comfortable with my own body and being a woman when I was much younger.
We as young girls get sucked into those unrealistic fallacies that are generally a no win situation for women.

Answer 5

I would be in better shape and I would have a good career. I must admit that I am not the person I always wanted to be. I am about to have baritric surgery and get back into college... *sigh* There ARE some things about myself that are what I wanted and I love it, but I am still a mess.

Answer 6

Not quite yet.. But I'm still young, and I still [most likely] have a long time to go. I'm working at it..

I don't think I'll ever get to the point where there is NOTHING that I want to change about myself.. I don't think that's possible, at least not for me. But I may get close enough to really say "this is who I'm happy being.. I like myself".

Answer 7

If I had it my way, employers at advertising agencies would forget the fact that I haven't finished a full year of university, and just sign me up as an administrative assistant or something, just so I could get my foot in the door. I really don't want to work at a coffee shop.

Also, I'd like to be taller.

Answer 8

I am happy about my individuaity and would never wish to change anything about me, the only thing i could do for myself is to live happy and be in peace with myself. I am unique and what God want me to be. We are all beautiful and individual people and that makes us stand out from one another.

Answer 9

I'm very happy with who I am but I still always strive to improve as far as learning new things. The world is an amazing place and there is a lot to learn about it, I don't think we should ever stop trying and learning new things.

Answer 10

now not me. however that is on account that the character i would love to be could be too tremendous and not possible. like, i love victorian fassion (velvet and corsets and all), i could love to excercise day-to-day, pass to the seaside day-to-day, gain knowledge of song and play it, write studies which might be bought and browse, and by some means do all of this even as preserving down a role and feature a household too. and i am most effective core-magnificence, now not wealthy and no manner of fitting wealthy in time to truthfully do that. if i pursued cash now, there could be a threat i would have ample to try this by the point i am 70. yeah. so no. i am simply dwelling in my dice, programming laptop, reproduction-pasting laptop code day-to-day. of path, if any individual is a pot-head they usually wanna pass streight, or they're streight they usually wanna be a pot-head, that is one other tale. that is one hundred% do-capable!