First off Seeker, like to say that I love your signature.
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To those who wander but who are not lost...
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Then back to this discussion.
A) I do not believe a person can ever truly know one self. The fact is that one may have an idea of what one is, does, and believes, until something comes along and challenges that belief. That understanding at first was secure and uncorrupted until it was tested and possibly exceptions occurred within that understanding. To truly know one self, one would have to have experienced everything, to know exactly what one is. This requires a side of omnipotence that no human, I hope, has in this world.
B) My belief is that it is one's goal in life to better it and others. To be all that one can be is useless if it cannot help another. One's worth and success should not be based on how much has one gained but how much has world been changed by one. No matter how humble or ground-breaking the action is, it's help has hopefully changed everything for good.
Then again, I am 18, but I doubt that these beliefs will change in college.