A partial requirement in Psychology 101
By: Joey D. Bidan Jr.
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remember a time in high school when my teacher asked me if I
love my country. I told her, "Ma'am, how can I love my country if I don't
even know how to love myself?" This is the very essence of the song -
"knowing how to love oneself."
The first three stanzas as I view the song, actually visualizes
major events in our lives. The first stanza is about the children "and how
they remind us how we used to be". How we all started off with innocent
and carefree attitude never having any problem at all. In view of this fact one
needs to take the time to teach the children for soon they will become as
adults. It is the time for parents to be influential in their child’s
upbringing because these children will become “our future”.
The second stanza is about inspiration or motivation. This part
tells us that, "everybody's searching for a hero and that people need
someone to look up to". This means that as we walk on this earth we are
always looking for somebody to connect to like our parents, our teachers,
mentors or even partners like a girlfriend. Who among us has not taken part in
that search? We’ve searched for love, for acceptance, for comfort. For
something outside of ourselves to make sense of the emptiness we feel
inside. We can search for years, lifetimes even. This is a
universal suffering. In ways that I cannot fully explain, hearing this
song again helped me see clearly how I have done this in my own life, and how
fruitless that search had become. And if somehow we are not able to find that
someone and become lonely, we need to "learn to depend on me." -
depend on yourself or be independent.
The third stanza is about how we deal with other people and how we
handle our failure and success. "Never to walk in anyone's shadow” tell us
not to be dependent on somebody else and hide behind his shadow. Stand on your
own feet; build your own honor and dignity because no matter what they take
from you they can never steal these values from you. This is also talking about
our education and later on having a nice job. We need to finish our studies so
we could honor our parents and have dignity to face everybody that we are able
to surpass the challenges of college life. The shame of fooling around at
school, skipping classes and failing to graduate is the same as losing your
dignity because everybody will see you as an irresponsible person. Trust me,
I've been there and I've done that. That is why I'm telling my friends to think
again before dropping their subjects because each one of those is so precious,
you will regret for the rest of your life why you're foolish enough to put
"stains" on your transcript. I am encouraging everybody to stand on
their own feet, love themselves, have self-respect and build a better future.
Be reminded that a family or love problem can’t be solved by another problem at
school. That we don't need to walk behind another person's shadow whether it's
your dead loved ones or your ex-lover because our world does not only turn
around a single person. Learn to love yourself, treat yourself with respect;
don't give yourself shame because the only person you could depend to
is…yourself.
The entire song is so wonderfully written it reminds us that our
strength, power, dignity, goals and accomplishments actually come from within.
Learn to love yourself first so that it will also be easy to achieve in loving
somebody else.
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