Poem, Personal Development, Self-Help, Mental Health, Hidden Illness,

Look at Yourself

What do you see?

Look at yourself
What do you see?
Do you see the me
I want you to see?

Is this vision of me
the me
I want to be
Free

To be
Myself

Whoever that is!

[Artisan Partizan for Holding the Middle Oct 2023]

This short poem is reflective (hence the reflecting picture) of the difficulties people feel in figuring themselves out. A Socratic questioning process helps with this. An exercise that informs this process is to write down 3 things you like and three things you don’t like about yourself. You dont need to tell me what they are but please comment which 3 things you completed first. There may be some insight I can share.

In this case the questions are more important than the answer, as good questions lead to good answers from within the person asking the question of themselves. The answer may not come immediately. Time spent in silence with the question may come up with some ‘maybe’ answers and over time the best fit will emerge.