What is to Live Like Oneself?

Our lives are full of decisions. The more significant these decisions are, the more eagerly we hope to make our choice coherent to our identity in order to live like oneself. It is obvious that we should support these decisions that are true to oneself. In my view, however, it is not sufficient to focus on the support for these decisions alone. For we do not always get what we want as results of these decisions. Sometimes the best choice for us provides the worst result. In such a situation, our identity will be in danger. In this paper I examine these identity-crisis situations, then consider the way how we restore our identity which are frustrated. My answer to this question is the following. In these identity-crisis situations, we restore our identity by redescribing the situation. Such brand-new description will give us the new perspective through which we are able to view the situation with different meaning. Through this process, our identity may have to change in some respect, but such new identity make possible to live like oneself again. The most significant point is that such a brand-new description is often given to us from another person. Here is the another possibility for the support someone\u27s identity other than support for one\u27s decision-making. It is to give another interpretation for one\u27s situation and show another life to live on