Self Critique

it's difficult to attain any sense of complete content with my own development as a person. Everything and anything can become a comparison. And somehow at the end it always seems to lead back to my own personal flaws. It seems that anyone who writes and anyone who wants to write well must past though this transition. A phase where anything remains in question even the question itself. Self critisicm, although it hurts the most is really light at the end of the tunnel. To really understand something, it must completely envelope you until it's perspective becomes yours. Is there any greater example of this than the self? It seems the first step to a feeling of enlightment is truly understanding the self. And in understanding, knowing how to change when needed.