<p>Please give me any advice or comments.</p>
<p>Prompt:
[A better understanding of other people contributes to the development of moral virtues. We shall be both kinder and fairer in our treatment of others if we understand them better. Understanding ourselves and understanding others are connected, since as human beings we all have things in common.]
Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on the issue.</p>
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<p>It is natural for human beings to convince themselves that they have a full understanding of themselves, but it is in facing one's own ignorance in oneself that one finds the importance of others. Other people not only act as a sort of mirror in which for one to look, but they can also see things that one cannot in himself. The mind is often distracted by things such as arrogance and virtue, and it is human nature to distort one's image of oneself so that one may feel more comfortable and content with who he is.
In the novel, "Rivers in Time" by Alfonso Faria, the narrator, Henry, is often misled by his constant ambitions and his desire for money, power, and sex. However, he discovers, when he meets a lady named Rosetta, that there is much about himself that he does not understand. It starts out with small things such as Rosetta noticing that he eats his eggs in a peculiar way. Henry never noticed this before. As they gradually fall in love, Henry discovers that he is capable of being quite a compassionate man. He also realizes his flaws as a man- for instance, his arrogance and greed- that he never realized before.
In my own experiences I have also found that I discover things about myself through other people. For instance, I never perceived before that my habit of mocking other people was an act of cruelty, but once my Uncle John pointed it out, I became extremely conscious of it. I am not a cruel person, but the perception I gave to other people was that I was.
Humans need other humans for more than just survival. None of us are truly self-sufficient, and because we often blind ourselves to our flaws, it takes other people to help us understand who we truly are.</p>
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<p>I wrote kind of big; it filled up the whole space.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated!</p>