Establishing His Absolute Truths

I found the manner in which Gandhi seemed to regard himself to be particularly interesting—his fear of other students and being picked on throughout his earlier childhood, his general tendency to accept what others would prefer for him to do over his own preferences, and his extreme and rather perplexing fear of public speaking.

In class it was brought up how odd it seemed that Gandhi would receive extremely harsh criticism from elders (which would totally ruin any positive self-image he might hold), yet he always took everything which elders would relay to him as absolute truth and adjust his own truths consequentially to fit. And, following such criticism, he would still regard the elders with just as much respect or affection as before. He did not allow the harsh words to affect the views he held of any such individuals, and took everything which they would tell him as opportunity to be provided with a broader perspective of himself which he might have otherwise been oblivious to. This would also correlate with the remaining aspects of his overall character and his ability to take the bad of every opportunity as a learning experience, or further aid in his experiments with truth.