is to acknoledge that you are a human being, you have qualities, virtues, and you have flaws, knowing thyself is to acknoledge that every one of these little things, your qualities and your flaws, your hobbies, your dislikes, your preferences, every single one of these things are what makes you, you. You arent just a being of flaws, or a being of only virtues. youre a being, period. To be a being is yes, to be ignorant towards some aspects of life that are simply out of your daily routine. you dont know how to build a house, and its because you dont daily have to do that, for example. you dont need to remember/know bhaskara if your career is art. point is, to know yourself is to know your identity, and even when you think you dont know it, that aspect of you is another thing that makes your being into what it is. To know yourself is to understand that, as humans, we are limited in many ways, we cant see atoms, we dont have x-ray vision, we cant see heat in certain bodies. we arent super, but it doesnt makes us any less special, because your identity is already what makes you special, super humans (or super heroes) were made for those who, with the knowledge that life is valueable, fantasize, create their own mithological stories to entertrain themselves. fantasy. fairtytale, miths, games, they aren't supposed to be replacement for the mundane life we have. only the ones who havent found thyselves use such instruments to try to fill the internal void, but its no use, since there is no escape from life, every day, every second, you breathe O2, we dont live in a virtual machine that can bring what we crave to life, no. No novel, no movie, no game can replace the life you have. the time you spend hypnotized in social media endlessly rotting your brain scrolling through algorithms made purposefully to overstimulate your brain and therefore keep you engaged with the app, the time you spent feels not real, right? it happened, sure, but its not like there was anything that stood out, out of all short videos, you cant remember any. its like for a moment, really, you were only a spectator in life. but even so, you were living, but just disconnected to reality, like a zombie, that is, your brain only has one goal; to have more dopamine, to be stimulated more, the same relation with lust and therefore porn. the more you watch, the more you want to watch, but in reality, you have never done anything in the time you only sat at the comfort of your home, merely just looking at an pixelated screen. For your own good, take a break, and reflect, think. what can make you know thyself, and what can you do to change these habits?

And i know i am ignorant to the routine of everyone reading this, after all, i dont know everyone in the planet's routine, their day to day life, their struggles and their battles, and it is daring of my part to want to advice, knowing i can make things worse, but still, there are many things you can do to change this feeling of being miserable, but again, i cant teach. i cant help, i cant save you from this abyss, i can only make you think, because the solution to this problem, only you can reach, youll have to do this by yourself, have your own conclusions but that doesnt mean youre alone. Many people go through what you go through, its just their solution that varies, thats why, since i cant help with the solution, i always try to direct your thoughts.

Think positively. yes. it sounds cliche and hard, but if you dont try, if you dont start DOING things, nothing will change, life keeps going, the only constant thing is the change, and even the change changes, so while youre static, life moves on without you.

yknow why some people attack/dont like people who complain too much about their life? Because they get the feeling youre only doing it for exposure. sure, its OK to vent to people online, on group chats, but if you dont effectively try to go seek a solution, people will be bothered by you, but recognize that youre only doing this because, right now you ARE ill, you say youre worthless, useless, and stuff, and if you verbalize these thoughts on text, specially to strangers who DONT KNOW YOU, they will think youre really annoying. my suggestion for this kind of thought process, is to try to avoid consuming negative content and try to focus on positive things, things worth being grateful, your life for example, its something to be really grateful of, because somehow, with all the odds against your favor, you were born to this world, the way you are, and another thing to knowing thyself is accepting who you are the way you are, because you are this way and you cant change it. people find cliche the saying that personality is worth more than body, but, taking that to your heart. it is worth more, because our body is just a vessel, and it will decompose on our death, so it doesnt really matter how you look, because what really matters in life is your soul, who you really are inside the flesh and the bones. no one can judge wether you are beautiful, ugly or simply just 'ok', this is just mere opinion, and opinion of other mean nothing, right now, what matters to the aspect of how you look is your opinion. others cant judge because, sure, they are dressed/in the pattern of 'beauty' conditioned by society, but in everyone's 80's, no one will have such ""beauty"", everyone someday dies, and that is also another reason to valorize your life, because we dont know the date, the week, the year, the hour and minutes when death knocks our door, it breaks the door down and kindnaps us like kindnappers, so, to be living now, right now, with you in this planet, is a blessing, and every second i have with you should be cheerished, something to be celebrated, something i smile and i always want to happen, to wake up tommorow with a notification on my phone saying "thanks for the message", or the likes, and i dont say that because i care about the numbers, i care about the people i reach, the people i can help with each one of posts like this, and it fills me with happiness, that from essays like this, someone finds something useful for them, something meaningful, that can help them find their light.

i want you to know that, despite how you look in real life, you are beautiful the way you are, you deserve love, and even without seeing it, you are loved. dont be content with common sense, its limited, get out of the darkness of this cavern, and go to the light of the true reflection, of the seek for knowledge, of the search of your identity, of knowing thyself.