Have You Found Yourself?

[Kosmiche]

I always wondered what it meant to find yourself, apparently it means travelling somewhere distant during a gap year at university.

Has anyone found themselves and what did you discover?

Thanks.

 

[V F]

Never knew you could lose yourself.

 

[arknor]

I found jesus wandering around the outback

 

[snips86x]

I found jesus wandering around the outback

Did he make you wine?

 

[tamzzy]

I always wondered what it meant to find yourself, apparently it means travelling somewhere distant during a gap year at university.

never believed in that bull ****, just a ploy from travel companies to make $$$ lol

 

[Nitefly]

All you come back with from your gap year is a load of ridiculous tall stories. That just happen to be true.

 

[Lightnix]

Yeah I'm at my laptop.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Never knew you could lose yourself.

Ive lost myself many a time

 

[Theophany]

Yep. I found myself a few years back, thought he was an absolute **** and have made every effort to kill him off.

Now I'm a lot less jealous, don't try to prove myself to people, accept myself as who I am and ultimately have found that I am liked by people more and women find me more attractive for it. 'Finding myself,' at least to me, was growing up.

 

[adolf hamster]

lots of people beleive wisdom is a long way away, maybe the monks in tibet could gain wisdom by going to london or somesuch, or perhaps they've already found it and their wisdom told them they didnt need to go anywhere to find wisdom.

thats a bit of pratchett philosophy. travelling does broaden the mind, and in my opinion makes us better people, at least everyone i've met who's done so seem to be the better for it compared to those who havent.

as for finding yourself, how about looking down?

 

[Jokester]

Now I'm a lot less jealous, don't try to prove myself to people, accept myself as who I am and ultimately have found that I am liked by people more and women find me more attractive for it. 'Finding myself,' at least to me, was growing up.

 

[dacads]

I lost myself in the moment

 

[batsy]

Did he make you wine?

Homophobe!

 

[Rroff]

While travelling can help to broaden and/or open your mind I doubt many people have ever found themselves on gap year it doesn't really tend to happen when your that young if nothing else.

 

[itchy]

OP why or what are you looking for?

You are yourself there is nothing to look for, you are what you are simple.

 

[TommyV]

I found myself at the age of about 15, haven't looked back since.

 

[Theophany]

I found myself at the age of about 15, haven't looked back since.

Finding your peen doesn't count.

 

[Heliospherez]

Finding yourself.... there's nothing much there .

If you really want to find yourself, you have to understand the basic concepts of meditation, mindfulness and loving the present - not thinking or planning about the future - or thinking about things you did in the past. A very difficult feat in itself - that is rarely achieved in the teens / twenties

If you can calm your thoughts enough - and filter out the 95% rubbish/useless thoughts most normal humans have every day - then you will really "find yourself" - and it doesn't require anything to do with gap years or travelling.

Try reading "The Power of now" if you want an insight in to the basics of it.

 

[Theophany]

Finding yourself = absolute rubbish - there's nothing there.

Followed by by some utterly self-contradictory ********.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Heliospherez]

Fixed that for you.

Fixed it too... bit too late and it did seem a bit of a stupid reply