August
What is important to me? Where do I want to go? Then make the small decisions! J.K.
I AND YOU
“Three qualities you associate with me,” is what a friend wished from her guests for her fortieth birthday. An interesting variety of words were brought together – some as expected, others surprising.
Who am I? Who am I for you?
One cannot clarify such questions alone. What I expect of myself is perhaps very different from what others value in me. Yes, even more: how often something about ourselves is revealed to us in an experience with another person.
“Language, self-mastery ,and even one’s own identity are not formed unless there is a counterpart present,”
states the philosopher and theologian Johannes Hartl.
We develop our personality in relationship to other people! And so, Martin Buber is most probably simply right: