The Id-eal and the Ego
Two posts in one day….I must have too much time on my hands.
Considering the eerie tone of my last post I thought I’d expound for a few of my close friends who read and might be worried. I get the feeling that some of you feel that I am always balancing on a window ledge looking down for a nice place to land.
You see dear readers I am a person who admits to not knowing everything and confesses to knowing almost nothing at all. I am baffled when so many of those around me are so filled with over-confidence and inflated self-esteems, while I am always uncertain and unsatisfied. In Education, there seems to be people all around you that carry so much pride but have accomplished so little. I not only speak of the students but of the teachers as well. In fact, teachers are almost as bad as the students and the younger the teacher, the more smug many can be. I tire of people who constantly blow their own horn but can hardly play a tune. I am weary of the bullies and the blowhards of the world. I am drained by all those whose minor accomplishments bolster them to a level of unbearable ego. I am finding it harder and harder to be a man of imperfection among so many others who are so self-impressed and “perfect”.
Maybe it’s my Asian background that makes me think that there is dignity in a person’s quiet humility. Accomplishment is something to be recognized by others and not sold to others. I don’t want to sell myself I merely wish to be myself. This line of thinking is probably not the way to get ahead in life. However, it is the way I prefer.
May 23, 2011 at 5:10 pm
I love the way you’ve put this one! Yes, sometimes you do seem to be standing on that ledge. But most all of the other times, you are that person with dignity and integrity, that shows clearly through your posts. And THAT is being YOURSELF, which is the most important thing of all. I applaud you.