Relationships really do show you who you are as a person

Self-help people/companies encourage you to reflect a lot nowadays by doing things like writing and meditation, but there is something else right under our noses that tells us who we are as people more than anything else.

It’s our interactions and relationships with other people.

It’s easy to lie about who you are when you’re writing. It’s easy to rationalise your incorrect beliefs when you’re meditating. But there is nothing quite as real as looking around you and seeing what type of relationships you have, and thinking how you act around other people.

Of course, I’d recommend lots of methods of self-reflection as no one method is perfect and doesn’t allow you to cover all areas.

It requires self-awareness and honesty

Learning about yourself in social situations requires self-awareness and honesty. People have this habit of blaming everyone else for their faults so they don’t learn how to deal with people.

The other person should change not them, but they don’t consider how many times they’ve had this same problem with other people. Is it the case that everyone else is wrong and should change? or is there something to what people are saying?