Psychology and Personal Understanding

This is one article I wrote for my psychology module out of pure understanding and inspiration.

It feels weird when you try to classify your everyday action, yet ironically you can actually get to understand yourself better at the same times. Sometimes we feel that we do things that we don't understand or know why we do them. However, psychology has yet to prove us otherwise. "Cause and effect", "reasons and meanings" and " Problems and solutions" occupy the times from our daily life.

For me, I guess most of my experiences are attributed accordingly to what I feel inside. You can say it's internal and controllable, yet most of the things that happen after I act accordingly to what I feel innately are external and uncontrollable. I can't predict and control how other people react to my actions, but I can learn to handle them better.

So I do feel that from external and uncontrollable attributions, you can sort of modify your internal and controllable attributions to suit the general public. But, does it kill the real you? Does it erode whatever individuality and uniqueness you hold dear to yourself? These questions remain unanswered, but I have faith that one day, I will have a compromise of internal, external, controllable and uncontrollable attributions.

Today's trigger did ignite some thoughts and pondering in my mind. I learnt a lot even though it seems to little and I hope that in time to come, I will come to understand myself better by understanding the fascinating works of the human mind.