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This is a journey of finding “who I am.” Through the exploration of narrative of life and the retrospection of self-life experiences, I recorded every self-story about “why I did it” to re-introspect on the interactions between myself and various roles in my life. I used text-based introspection on re-experience to perceive the original frame and deconstruct and reconstruct the landscapes of life. I used constant self-conversations to witness the impacts of other people’s life on me and explore my own axes and images of life. During the process of accompanying students, I built the role and image of myself as a teacher. Through teaching and learning, the abundant life of students enriched my life. I explored and perceived the teacher-and-student relationship, as well as uncovered my fear of “being afraid that I am not good enough” and my constant self-oppression of “excessively requesting myself to make efforts.” The introspection on myself as a “mother” and the review on how I got along with my son enabled me to learn the uniqueness and subjectivity of “life.” During the process of accompanying and guiding my son to grow up, I learned how to practice to “attain the peace of mind,” admire my appearance as a “mother,” and learn to sincerely keep company with my son and myself. I used the exploration of narrative and accompanying to bravely face the relationship with parents, clarify the impact of “good kids” on my own life construction, reveal my own growth experiences in my original family, and gaze at my own sorrow and pain. I perceived my inner child image of “needs for love affirmation.” Through self-conversations, I converted the sorrow over the death of my father into the new power for inspecting self-state in my own life. I wrote about the overlapping between significant others and my own life images to inspect my own multiple frames, look for my own tone of life, practice to accept, convert and take actions.I got rid of a great amount of unnecessary “ought to be” and “oppression,” listened to my true voice, and affirmed the beautiful value of my own existence. I experienced the bitterness, pain, joy, and happiness of life and vented the true feelings through self-narratives, which enabled me to see “who I am” and construct the life images about “What I’d like to do? Why I would do so.”
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