Who Are We Really?
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people are all actors. they play a role whenever they are with someone.
what do I mean? ok, for a start we have an inner and outer self. we are who we are between our own ears (generally), but all we ever present to the outside world is a facet of ourselves. that which we want someone else to see. that can change from person to person, situation to situation.
we play a role in work, we play a role at home, we play a role with friends. we all have our deep dark secrets, we all have fleeting thoughts of terrible acts in the name of revenge, or sexual thoughts that come unbidden into our midst. do we share these? rarely. or at least some people get presented with one bit of the jigsaw while another is presented with different things.
above all this is why we each struggle to assess people. over time we gather experience that may modify our opinions of others. we try to glimpse those other facets, to build a more complete picture.
some people seem to have real problems understanding that other people are as multi faceted as they themselves are. they believe that which they are presented with. it's how conmen get away with plying their trade, or perhaps how some people partner the wrong person.
over the years i've become more and more aware of the different facets of my own personality. the awkwardness of two facets in conflict is excruciating. imagine your most debauched drinking buddies and your mum, auntie hilda and your next door neighbor in the same room with you, perhaps with no sense of who the other is. each knows a piece of you, and a piece of your world. sure you're gonna hope your drinking buds have some respect, but at the same time it's easy to find yourself in conflicting situations
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