Pacifism
13 years ago
Monday, March 15, 2010
Three Years Later
I still think that you are what other people think you are. You can think the world of yourself, think that you present to others as humble, and come across to others as conceited son of a gun. However, few will tell you the truth if you were to ask them what they think of you. So, how will you ever know? The scary thing is that you never will. As Emily Dickinson penned, "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant."
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I have to disagree. Every person exists almost completely on their own and within themselves. Even those we feel closest to might never even come close to understanding us, but their own perecption of us does not change the core of our being. Even the most apparently pathetic or cruel person has an entire world of reason and emotion within them that others will never be able to completely comprehend.
This is quite a topic you got going... Although, I think both of you are right. I know I have people that really understand me, and would tell me what they think of me. But, for the most part, the people I come into contact with every day wouldn't really know where to start. So, for those every day people, I am what they see externally... I do agree that every person has some sort of "world of reason" inside them, that makes them function. But what you are to the public eye, your reputation, can be very different.
But the question remains; have you revealed your whole self to anyone, and they ever revealed all they think of you to you? I guess I can't get The Who out of my mind. In response to Meagan: That is self-perception. I can think I am a caring person, but at least one person would have to agree for that to be true.
Again, I have to disagree. If you do care, then you are a caring person. That's true regardless of whether or not other people are perceptive enough to realize it.
Okay, I thought it over and this is my final thought on the matter. You can never really know every thought and facet of some one else's mind. You can come close, maybe if you're very close to that person. But people are always changing (some more than others) and so are their thoughts and ideas and the like. Therefor the mind of the individual remains a mystery. It is what it is, and it knows better than anyone else. And, since no one else can really know it fully, they have to infer what kind of person you are by contact with you. This gives people an impression of you, and so to them you are something most likely different from what you really are. So, you are what people think you are, but you remain yourself, of course. Just because people have a certain view of you character doesn't necessarily mean that is what you will become. Now, I will leave before I confuse myself even more.
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