Are You Treating Yourself as a Project or a Person?

What if the real problem isn't the stress, but the way you're measuring yourself?

That pressure comes from a very modern mistake: treating yourself as a project, not as a person.

St. John Paul II's personalism cuts through that. It starts from a simple but demanding

truth: a person is not a what, but a who, and a who can never be reduced to results,

to reputation, or to the next crisis. Anxiety often grows when we live as if our worth is

always on trial. Even small things become loaded: a message left on seen,

a delay, a mistake, a bad impression. The heart starts acting like a courtroom.

But personalism says dignity is not a verdict, it's a fact. You don't manufacture