periapt

[stae]

Sometimes in order to progress, one must cut parts of oneself out. Blades at the ready :)

Perhaps i can wear the parts of my personality as an accesory.

Comments

[psy_ren]

It frightens me to think about how accurately you've identified whats troubling me.

What do I keep? The parts that I don't like but the others do? Or the parts that I like and to hell with the others?

Is simply cutting things out of ones life too dismissive? Is it just a cop out way of getting rid of something that I can't be bothered dealing with?

[stae]

Well i guess that raises the question of whose life are you living? do you live it for the sake of others or for yourself. Personally i just like to carve away those parts which serve no real constructive purpose. things like regret, self doubt, fear, aspects that hinder me.

i don't think it is dismissive, i think it would be dismissive not to address the issues in the first place and just bury it beneath a veneer of thin smiles.

[unjaundiced]

ah, so many people do that. but will you lose yourself or just warp your old self into someone new? hm.. and then you find out you're still the same after all that.. durnit

[stae]

well i guess you could always raise the question of identity and at what point you cease being you as more parts are excised, whether you are the sum of all your parts or whether your identity is intrinsic in a particular defining aspect.

way i see it, if something makes you unhappy with yourself, just get rid of it or improve it.

[dalendra]

way i see it, if something makes you unhappy with yourself, just get rid of it or improve it.

amen to that. if only everyone could see that its just that simple.

[stae]

i think a lot of people view themselves as immutable, but change can easily be effected if one just tries.

[ninedeadleaves]

If the parts of our personalities are just that - parts - and you cut some away, does that mean they attach themselves to the next person, parasite-style?

[stae]

Well i guess for that to literally happen you would have to subscribe to the idea of a collective conciousness, though admittedly there does seem to be a fair lack of distinction from one person to the next in a bigger picture sense i don't really believe we are all that intimately linked. course in a more environmental type setting whereby a deficiency in a certain personality trait may well mean susceptibility to emotional pressures then that may cause a person to adopt said detached trait in order to better cope with a new pressure from society, a lack of diversity and survival of the fittest in a psychological sense maybe.

i just like to think that they go to the island of lost personality bits.

[ninedeadleaves]

There was an experiment carried out between two neighbouring islands upon which the same species of monkeys lived and hadn't experienced human contact before. While observing the monkeys on one island, one of the infants tried washing a certain type of food they'd previously been unable to eat in the stream that led out to the ocean. The adult monkeys, seeing this, suddenly had access to a new food supply. It was only when all the monkeys on this first island had learned the ability that those on the second island began to divine the same notion.

[stae]

So are you saying that knowledge is inherent within a being?