teaching

photo: tumbler, kim kardashian

as a teacher of interpersonal communication

i tell my students that we have to lay the foundation (who am i?) before we can start adding the bricks (how do i communicate with others?) because

out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks

(matt 12:34)

and most of the foundation for interpersonal communication lies in self concept and self esteem...

photo: google, jennifer lopez


and a big part of the development of self esteem comes from social comparison


{and face it, we rarely are comparing apples to apples}


what you see is usually never the whole picture


of a person's life...their emotions, their circumstances, their looks...



photo: google, goldie hawn

most of these college students get it right away


and all of them get it when i show them these photos


{especially the young women}


sometimes social comparison can be a motivator to be a better person


but sometimes it can drag down our self esteem


and ultimately effect our relationships with others


i tell my students...


be yourself. everyone else is already taken anyways.
-oscar wilde