do you believe in self-actualization?

Self-actualization is the topic of my research paper for Personality Theories. Except i can't just make up theories. i need scholarly journals to find empirical research done on the topic. which, in my humble opinion, really isn't as much fun.

tom sales said he believed in it 'to a degree'. I concur. Are there two r's in concurr? no i think only one. anyway, i think that...if a person is isolated from all the stresses of daily life. enjoys his/her isolation, embraces the way they feel a part of the world and their role in it, then i think self-actualization might be a very good possibility. however, it seems a distant dream to those of us living and breathing the stresses of everyday life. that's not to say that we'd be better off isolated. Or that a person taking part in and facing these stresses would not be able to achieve self-actualization. i'm just saying the chances of achieving are much smaller if someone worries about the things we upright-walking animals worry about.

my tummy is empty and i'd be tempted to eat something if i don't go to sleep. don't worry, i'm not starving myself, i actually enjoyed some decent pizza and caesar salad compliments of my sociology professor. how nice. she was so proud of the fact that she said she was serving dinner and she really meant it. made me think of home because my mom always makes sure before we have the second slice we have salad. i'm gonna be a lot like her when i grow up...