Journal #34 take two

So I already did this blog, or so I thought.  Turns out there is a difference between yourself, and your Self.  Did not catch that one.  Whitman describes self as three different things.  Soul, peoples perception of you, and your perception of you. My soul: I like to think I have a pretty cool soul.  Personally I like to think of it as some spirit-y thing, nestled inside of my heart somewhere, wearing a fedora and ray-bans playing the saxophone with some serious soul.  My soul would definitely be cranking out some Jesus tunes. My perception of myself:  pretty much my original blog.  My faith is the most important thing in my life.  I am completely centered around my life as a christian, or at least I do all I can to be.  I am honest, I love learning new things, I love helping people, I love deep conversations, etc.  Overall I am a pretty likable person who loves Jesus a bunch and can't wait to get out in the world and begin spreading his love.  Others perceptions of me: From what people have told me, they see me as the weird christian girl who is really really energetic and gives super good advice and is always willing to give advice.  The other day I was talking about church to someone in the hall way and Emily Taylor was in front of us and turned around and said "I knew it was you!"  That is so awesome.  I love that.  That's the positive perception people have of me.  Most people these days don't really like to be up front therefore if someone has a negative perception of me, I'm not aware of it.  I absolutely love being given constructive criticism, but once again people are always scared that you'll get mad or stop being friends with them or whatever.  I find this stupid because if you are legitimate friends you should always be able to come to each other with problems and be able to work through them.  All three of these categories equal my 'self'.