The Nohari Window is a challenging inversion of the Johari Window, using antonyms of the original words. By describing your failings from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of perceived and unrecognised weaknesses can be explored.

I hope I’m brave enough to take this all in. But I think I can learn more from this than Johari. Please check out my Nohari Window.

Reading Jeff’s blog today, I found out that he set up a Johari Window for himself.

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.

After filling up Jeff’s Johari Window, I set up my own. I hope you guys try to help me know myself more. This will really be a great way to becoming more self aware. This is my Johari Window Site.

After the conclusion of that melodramatic episode in my life, I am once again allowed the opportunity to look inward and reflect.

A shroud of loneliness comes over me as I realize that all the people who I have become close to are moving away. The thing that caught me off-guard is that I am deeply affected by it, and I am somehow kicking myself for it. My rational half is nagging to myself:

Why did you let your guard down?
Why did you make yourself dependent on them?

I truly feel that this is a disservice to myself. I should have protected my heart.

However deep the wound
However wide the valley
However strong the pain
No ship of any fleet is unsinkable
Nor wall of any keep, unbreakable
Nor peak of any mount, unreachable
Nor can my heart stay frozen
However tired with battle
However cold with hurt
To the call of repenting souls

My family situation is better now. We are all good, my brothers, sister and me. It took a big meeting and a melding of the minds to clear up things. But its all over now. I’m trying to forget the pain. I’m asking the cosmos, time, to heal my weary heart.