I feel like a kid with extremely low self-esteem right now, and I want to cry.

It doesn't help that I was looking a pictures of real life women who are really pretty and really sexy and not just CUTE. I don't look my age, and my skin hates me.

I'm socially awkward more times than I am not.

I'm dating someone who treats me really well and I don't feel like I deserve it.

I'm on the verge of tears right now. :(

I like this paper...

Ideas and Beliefs

Sitting in class listening to students speak, it is clear everyone has different ideas of what is true. As original as people want their beliefs and ideas to be, it is easy to argue that they have been influenced by surroundings in some way. Just as well, everyone thinks what he or she believes is the truth but with about six and a half billion people on Earth that is a lot of different truths to be told. According to Plato there is one truth that is too unbelievable to the rest of the world and it would be painful, in a sense, to anyone who has learned this truth.

Much of what I understand about the world has come from ideas presented to me by my elders. The people I grew up knowing my entire life had a huge influence on my beliefs, especially my mom who has been the number one person in my life. She influenced me a lot because she was who I saw everyday for a majority of my growing. My family influences me by being the ones who spoke to and around me as a child. Until I was around middle school age, I really didn’t know what to think when it came important life thoughts. Then I started spending less time with family and more time with friends. Spending time with friends who had different ideas really makes you think more about your own ideas. The interactions between friends may even challenge ideas made prior. At this age I started to notice more and more how things weren’t always as I grew up thinking. It was clear that everything around me had some kind of power to shape my own believes.

Even though everything from family to media has the power to shape my beliefs, I think the people I respected the most over the last few years have had the most power. You tend to take more into consideration if someone you have high respect for presents you with information. This could be good if they are informing you on something that they have studied for a long time. It could also be good if it challenges something you are unsure of because it gives you a different perspective of something you might not have known, or know very little about. On the other hand it might not be good because if you take that person too much to heart instead of just using them as a resource you may just take their beliefs totally instead of forming independent thoughts. In order to figure out what is true extensive research and thought needs to be done.

I do not know what is true, but I do think it is a good idea to think about things and question everything, especially if I don’t understand it. As far as a universal truth goes, I don’t think it will ever be possible to know if there is one or not. Either there is not, and anyone trying to figure it out is wasting his or her time or like Plato believed, there is. If Plato were correct I don’t think anyone will ever figure it out because of the time it would take. I also think that if someone does learn of the Truth it would be too hard for them to communicate it in a way for the entire world to understand.