Our self-knowledge is curiously flawed. We often do not know why we behave the way we do. When powerful influences upon our behaviour are not so conspicuous that any observer could spot them, we, too, can miss them. The subtle, implicit processes that control our behaviour may differ from our conscious, explicit explanations of it.
So many people make themselves impermeable. They no longer allow themselves to feel what is truly underneath it all. And this is the saddest reality of living
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