This blog was created for my Critical Thinking class. We are only a few weeks into the semester and I feel as though I have learned so much already. We have an assignment to look at "self" and write our feelings on the subject.
        After reading the chapter in our textbook I felt as if I should know what "self" means, but I read and hadn't really listened to what I was reading. So, I read it again. After contemplating what the words meant to me I would have to say that "self" means the whole me. Whatever that may be.
        For so many years I have been someone's wife or someone's mother, daughter, granddaughter, but never really my own person. Thinking about what "self" means is an awkward proposition and is going to be very difficult to find.
        When we read a text we absorb it into our cells and use our experiences and feelings to interpret what it means. If we have found who our "selves" are, the meaning of the text will be completely different than if we are still lost concerning our "self".
        The purpose of finding "self", is to define our essential qualities to distinguish ourselves from everyone else.
        I watched a music video on youtube by Tennis called My Better Self. The first sentence in the song ways, "My better self still knows that meaning comes and goes." I really liked this sentiment because it sums up alot of what I have been thinking about "self". How can we really know what "self" is from day to day as our experiences change us. Is it something that we will be constantly contemplating or is it something that we can catch up with and know? Who Knows? Not Me!