Senior, Dongduk Girl’s High School
Know yourself-Socrates
There is a picture of someone who wound a black cloth around her body. A girl is sitting on her lap. The caption says, “After a while you may not be able to see this girl”. Many countries have serious problems with sexual discrimination.
Females who live in these counties, which are represented in this picture, must cover their bodies when they become a certain age. This picture is talking about the problem of men and women. But the strange thing is that when I saw this picture, some other emotion came to me, more bigger than the feeling of sympathy for sexual discrimination.
The woman covering her body with a black cloth, which looked especially big to me, was just existing as a nameless person. Through her, I saw myself who was just breathing and living my days not knowing who I truly was. So I thought and decided. I will know myself.
In life the first line is to find oneself, and for that you often need loneliness and thinking -Fridtjof Nansen
Someone asked me. “How do you want to live?” I answered that when I go to university, I want to study what I want to learn, get a job and live doing things connected with that job. That person made a dark face and said he wasn’t asking for something such as a job. He was asking me about me. To think about who I am, about my ego, about what I like. Knowing myself was really a hard thing. But when I became a senior in high school, I had to make important decisions and could not help but think about myself.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I must have experiences which can help me find myself.
I hope that the university will be a place for that. High school students learn the same thing and have no choice but to experience the same activities as everyone else. But I think that the place “university” is different. I can have an open mind and gain knowledge in various ways and do many things. Of course the purpose of this has to be finding my real self.
Walk your way. Leave people to say what they want. -A. Danate
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