Personal Importance

In his commencement sppech, David Forester Walla writes many useful things that we face in our everyday life. What is life? How you will leave it? It is YOUR choice. For many people, life is a routine: YOU wake up, take a shower, put your expensive perfume, get in your “Audi A5”, turn on “50 Cent”. Then YOU stuck in traffic - those 30 minutes seem 2 hours for YOU and YOU get annoyed, then angry. At work you do everything perfectly, but your boss does not appreciate it. You think that it is because of your race, expensive cloth or that this boss is just jealous. Wait, do not take anything personally. You, as a person, have to make an agreement with yourself whether to be free or to always think that everybody is against you in this world. Isn’t it complicated? Whatever happens around you, do not take it personally. The simplest example would be when you hear your boss saying: “You are such a bad worker! Go away and eat your lunch!”. Without knowing it you would think it’s about you. As David Foster Wallace said: “…I am the absolute censer of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence…”. It is not always about YOU, it’s about ME as well. YOU take too much things personally which make your head busy with “waste”. As soon as you agree, that the thing that was said is true, the poison goes through, and you are trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression od selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “ME”. During the period of our education, work, childhood, domestication - we learn to make everything personally. We thing we are responsible for everything: me me me me. It is always ME. Nothing other people d...

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...ything is being influenced by your emotions, even my work. The human mind is exactly like this description of skin. Injustice - it is a concept of out mind that we open to people around us. We have our own view what is done right, what is wrong. People judge too much. 
The last thing I want to point out in my speech that was inspired by David Forester Walla, is that there is a cure to our infected mind. Fogiveness is the only way to heal ourselves. When we forgive ourselves - we feel compassion. We make a promise that we will never hurt, judge or go against ourselves. Once, you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in you mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are! Isn’t it what David wanted to tell us? That’s how I understood it. Simple and clear: be friends with yourself.