I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming…. This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I feel happy—deep down. All is well.

The speaker frames self-knowledge as an ethical and imaginative route to understanding other people: by clarifying one’s own motives, limits, and desires, one becomes less judgmental and more perceptive about others. The second movement shifts from ambition (“be all that I am capable of becoming”) to emotional resolution. What initially feels like a grim program of self-improvement becomes, after “wrestling,” a settled inner peace—suggesting that honest self-scrutiny can relieve rather than intensify strain. The closing “All is well” reads as a hard-won affirmation: not naïve optimism, but a calm acceptance that growth and happiness can coexist once inner conflict is faced directly.