Self Empowerment Is Important For Your Own Life - 2380 Words

Self-empowerment simply put is taking charge over your own life. Sounds pretty easy, right? Unfortunately, it’s a bit more complex than it seems. Self-empowerment could have many different interpretations. Whether it’s physical, mental, emotional or even spiritual. Physical self-empowerment is taking care of your body to the best of your ability, dieting, exercising, and fighting off illness. Mental self-empowerment is education, protection from mental illness, and trying to maintain a good mind set. Emotional self-empowerment would typically deal with relationships, feelings, and love. Spiritual self-empowerment is most likely religion based or meditation based. Empowerment is also made up of 5 components: your sense of self-worth, your†¦show more content†¦Following that is love and belongingness needs meaning the desire for friendships, intimacy, affection, and love. Then, esteem needs come into play which causes longingness for achievement, independence, do minance, self-respect, and respect from others. At the very top of the pyramid is self-actualization which is also known as self-empowerment. It’s the need for realization of personal potential, self-fulfillment, and seeking personal growth. Arthur Miller captures self-empowerment in Death of a Salesman with his main character, Biff. The story takes place in the 1940s and critiques the idea of the American Dream for the Loman family and illustrates their unfortunate reality. Biff, who was once an all-star high school football player, is now a farm boy who can’t seem to hold down a solid job. His father, Willy Loman, had higher hopes for his son other than just being a no good farm boy. After learning a little about what Biff does for a living, Miller reveals to the readers that every spring Biff comes home. Springtime symbolizes rebirth and renewal so it seems that Biff is in need of some soul-searching. So, he packs up his bags and heads home to face the wrath of his delusional father about how he’s wasting his life away (nothing Biff hasn’t heard before). Both Willy and Biff’s brother Happy Loman, are obsessed with the thought of being better than they actually