How do I define myself?

How do I define myself? How do I characterize myself?

How we see ourselves is more important than how other people see us. However, my self-knowledge is rather judgmental. Sometimes, I would also compare myself to the others. And this results in discontent and low inferiority complex. I know it is not fair to myself but I just can't help to judge myself in such a negative way. 

To get a clear and fair definition of myself, I have to observe my own patterns of thoughts. Another way is to define myself by the values that I hold at core. I couldn't be wrong if I define myself by my core values, could I? I don't like defining myself by temporal identity like a student, a member of some organisations, etc. Instead, I want to define myself by my aspiration, the goals and aims that I want to achieve in my life. Therefore, I would define Lee Wai Keat as an educator. Yes, an educator. 

Education is my lifelong career. I always believe that education is the root of civilisation, the root of everything. Having seen the unreasonably low mentality of the society, which people often describe it as the "reality", I think that I ought to do something, something constructive, for our society. Even if I cannot change the mentality of the society, I believe through my effort there will be more people taking my place and role in educating our future generations.

After all, I still have to work harder to really know who I am. To me self-defining is also the process of soul searching. I think about what have I done in the past, I think about what my values are, I think about how I look at myself. We all have to be positive when defining ourselves but we also have to acknowledge the negative events that happened in our lives. They do not form our identities but truly they have offered precious experience and knowledge to us. 

20天里的第五篇，献给每一个正在寻找自己的你。