The truth is, there is no such thing as 'the real me'. We always have faces, emotions and mannorisms that we put on for each different senario and the differen't people we're around. We imagine who we'd like to be and then get so deep into it that we forgot what we were like before. Only photographs and fading memories. And why did we change? Was it for the better, or for the worse? Perhaps a mix of the two? Either way, it's always difficult to go back once we've had a taste of something different and therefore we develop further and building much more complex personalities that it's sometimes difficult to keep up and wonder who we really are underneith it all.
And then you meet old people, people like my grandparents who have given up trying to be anyone or anything they're not. They're facing death and maybe that's the one thing that humbles us.
Despite everything I just said, I still think the same thoughts as you...
Both of you are right, you know. We all put on a face, most of the times, while socializing. But..i tend to believe most of us put it on over something, a structure, some kind of mix between own educated will/belief/intention and genetical background. I just dont find that in me at times..
The whole forigner idea was meant to point at the cliches..but its normal to be curious about non familiar things.
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And then you meet old people, people like my grandparents who have given up trying to be anyone or anything they're not. They're facing death and maybe that's the one thing that humbles us.
Despite everything I just said, I still think the same thoughts as you...
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We all put on a face, most of the times, while socializing. But..i tend to believe most of us put it on over something, a structure, some kind of mix between own educated will/belief/intention and genetical background. I just dont find that in me at times..
The whole forigner idea was meant to point at the cliches..but its normal to be curious about non familiar things.
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