How do you do it?
Standing before the hordes of other human life, can we easily flip a switch and become “ourselves?”
The notion that one can choose to be themselves implies this dormant, true self is waiting, perhaps hiding behind the created self which we would rather portray ourselves as.
Yet, if choosing to be oneself is simple, why doesn’t this choice happen more often? What keeps this prodigal son or daughter from actually entering our everyday life? When I think to myself, “Just be yourself,” I then wonder how I would do that, because I’m still trying to figure out who I am.
What do you do to be yourself or to find yourself?
Why are people not themselves more often?
Post your ideas in the comments.
Interesting. So do we say that the "created self" is a separate entity or a version of the "true self." I think the self we portray would be a combination of not only societal expectations and crowd/clique/scene pressure, but also our own values/beliefs/thoughts/etc. What we think is "cool" would a value reflection. Which...I suppose is obvious, but it means that the created self is a stepping stone, of sorts. That you build new sort of supportive, if temporary, parts to that creative self around your core beliefs. Some of these stick as core parts, some of them lead to new supportive parts, though, ultimately, many are discarded. And then you move on, exploring new interests and ideas. I think we would, therefore, call the people who are compromising core beliefs for the sake of crowd pressure the ones not being themselves. I guess a weighing one against the other.
ReplyDeleteSo is your idea that "supportive parts" are beliefs we are trying out for size, seeing if they fit in the social world, while core beliefs are the one's we're comfortable with?
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