Personal Reflection Of My Self-Discloser To My Life

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Background

I feel it is important to give some background and self-discloser to my past so that it may give more clarity to how I was coping or managing my life. It may also show why and how these events in my life affected my being and thinking.
I was born in a large town of Istanbul called Eyup in 1968. I was always quite popular with my friends and liked by their parents as a well-behaved child. When I was about eight years of age, my sister - one year younger than me - passed away. It was due to the wrong prescription of medication to her mizzles. We were very close and as an older brother, I was very protective of her. Needleless to say it affected our family deeply and none of us really got over it fully.
During my childhood and into my teens, the country was going through a lot of political transformation which caused a lot of problems among people in Turkey. When I was nine years of age our neighbour's father shot a person in a café and then he shot himself. He was in his seventies and ran a bicycle shop and because …show more content…

This gives me the freedom to act as I am without trying to find masks to put on in different circumstances. My understanding is that, more open I am about my life the more freedom that I could feel. Of course, there are things that we cannot talk about to others. Some of it open only to our partners (our wife or husband), some only to friends and some only to our work environment BUT some we only keep to ourselves. I am most comfortable in this area and have been trying to grow Open Self. This area also the riskiest. More people knows about me, the more I am exposed to miss-judgment and criticism based on their mindset. I can say that I am more open now and this is due to have worked on personal self-development for many years and felt the importance of being honest both inside and outside when I am presenting myself to the

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