Rene Descartes

My Enemy Is Myself

“My Enemy Is Myself”
   By: Maria Krizel B. Ocampo
STEM111-2A

         Who am I? Do I know myself enough? Do I do right in my everyday life? Or am I just one of the people who try to conquer the world for fame, power, money and a name in history? Maybe I’m one of them but no one can stop me. No one can shut me because I am me.

         I can do everything. I can be who I am. No one can control, except me. I am the boss of me. Nothing can stop everything I do. And no one can control me to what I want to do. This is me and I am just being myself.

        But the people around me teach me how to be responsible. But I’m hard headed one, what I know is what I do. And you say just enters my ear passes by another ear. I don’t care about everything you say because everything you say is nothing to me.

       But when everything in me is suddenly gone; the power, money, fame and a name in just one snap. It’s gone. By that, I learn to use them well. I learn to be a true human. I learn a new knowledge and I discovered a new lesson about it. That the real change begins with itself.

       It is not a great experience at all. But it is the best teacher of all. And that made me realize that my real enemy is not the people around me, not the environment and also not the world but it was me after all.

“Conquer yourself not the world”

- Rene Descartes