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NDD:
That is how you see yourself. I agree with you, in your case, it describes you accurately.
Others do not have your clarity, and see themselves as they wish they were, rather than how others see them or how they actually are.
You allude to that with your Muslim analogy. I would say that Mohammed Atta and OBL see themselves as good Muslims. I dare say that while most Muslims may agree with them, the majority of the world do not.
Does that make them good Muslims because they and others see them as such, or murderers and terrorists because that is how they are and we see them as such.
In short, do we define ourselves, or do our actions or others' opinions define us?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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