“Even though I am constantly changing, I still know myself more than anyone can claim to know me.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 54
In other words
Other people’s opinions can reveal how a person appears from outside. They may contain a truth worth learning, an honest misunderstanding, or a judgment shaped by very little knowledge.
Self-knowledge offers a deeper record. It includes private motives, past change, effort, and the parts of life no observer can fully see. Even while the self keeps changing, its owner remains closest to that movement.
Neither view needs to erase the other. Outside opinion can protect against blindness, while inner knowledge protects against being defined by every voice. Freedom grows from knowing which criticism can build the life and which one describes a person who has never truly existed.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
Elsewhere
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