Reflective Essay About Self Reflection

Writing a self-reflection is never an easy task for me, because I do not like to talk about myself. They are multiple reasons behind this behaviour, one can argue that it might has to do with a low self-esteem, but that will be a simplistic explanation without the necessary background information to make an in-depth analysis of this behaviour.
It took me a few years to be able to understand why I do not like to talk about myself, however, today I can better explain and understand my behaviour. At a younger age the main reason was that I did not understand what was interesting about myself and what I could give back to people for how I care. The point was that I did not know myself, therefore, my self-esteem was low. In such a situation, how

I believe that this will always be part of me, like explained in the book emotional intelligence 2.0., it is likely that your personality will not change. Furthermore, my cultural background has also had an impact on the fact that I do not like to talk about myself. A few years ago, I read a book called “l’Afrique noir est-elle Maudite?”, written by Moussa Konaté. This book is about the African culture in a broad sense and the place of the individual in the group (family or community). While reading this book, I had the feeling that I was reading my own story. In the African and Western culture kids have different duties and rights. As a kid, I learned that I was not allowed to question what elder told me, because they have the knowledge and experience. In the western world kids are stimulated to question and understand what they are told. In this regard my childhood was a contradiction, I had to behave in different ways at home and school. I believe that this has help me in being flexible and adapt my behaviour to a given situation, but again at the other hand I do not like to be in the limelight, which, I think has work against me in many occasions. In my opinion both education principles have pro’s and contra’s the ideal education is finding the right balance between the mix of