This ain't the movies, we're all in 3D
People aren't generally one or two-dimensional. There are usually many, many facets to one's personality. Sure, we all have characters and one-word stereotypes but there's always something more to a person than just that. What one word would define me? Singaporean, Eurasian, woman, scientist, bartender, lover, friend, sister, daughter, bitch? What would define anyone, most people are just that. They're where they come from, they're the people that they're connected to or they're the one word stereotypes.
There's always something more to a person though, I'm more than just a word and so is everyone else. We all go through similar things and most of us act a similar way. We all grow up and mature, get jobs, find our ways in life. We find a way to make ourselves useful to the community so that we may benefit in turn. A lot of us fall for somebody, find some weird connection in space to bridge the gaps between. Most of us will have children or care for one, trying to pass on knowledge and help another make sense of the world.
There's so many facets to our personalities however, I am not just strong, I can also display some form of cowardice. I'm not completely intelligent, there are parts in my life where stupidity shines through. I am not always a bitch, I'm a pretty caring individual when I put my mind to it. I'm not always loud-mouthed and vulgar, I can display periods of time of refinement when the situation calls for it.
I was just thinking of this when ecd mentioned that my comments about my refined relatives were sarcastic when they weren't. Another example of this is when chin, my best friend of 6 years said that a particular piece I wrote was too meek for my character. It's not just them though, most people have a particular opinion of somebody as if a particular set of behaviour is native to them. It's not though, I never thought of myself as a cheater until I cheated on my exes. It really shits me when people say things like, "Oh, that's something I'd never do." Bullshit. You'd kill a man if he were coming at you with a knife. Some people do things out of character from time to time, it happens. Would that seem... Out of character? Or just being human?
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Sorry to complicate your thesis further but many of us project an image of ourselves which are not the real us. Hence the clown and the bitch could both be sensitive souls; one using humor and the other attitude to protect themselves from hurt. I think we all spend a good deal of our lives unmasking ourselves.
Lol, it's not a thesis, merely a ridiculously short passage that barely covers any legitimate theories. Hahaha, it's true though, forgot to add that part about the unmasking. Ah well, will save it for another post.
Do we even really, really know anyone? Everyone keeps secrets, I was actually going to put something in there about human behaviour and media whereby media denotes how people act, since we use the media for a lot of knowledge couldn't you say that our 1D/2D thesis comes from what we see on tv. In real life though, everybody's an onion instead of always inherently happy and jovial.
But yeah, too complicated and my theory isn't fully developed yet.
That time of the month again?
Your monthly bitch syndrome? bleed much lately...
Totally agree, she's bleeding her snatch out...
Sigh, riiiight. Don't make me turn on comment moderation assholes.
How's the post even bitching in the first place?
And don't think I don't know you're the same person
i'm sorry mummy... spank me?
What's that old lyric ... "every saint's a sinner, and every sinner a saint."
I can be cruel, selfish, rude, lazy, sneaky and downright disgusting at times.
I have a closet that I keep shut, as does every human being.
But I consider myself a generally good person, nonetheless. And I believe that You are, too.
I wonder, regarding LGS' comment: If we project an image of ourselves, is is not in some way "the real us" after all? From whence does it derive?
Hehehe, maybe.
I think sometimes the image that we project, some parts of it may be true to ourselves but sometimes it's purely a facade that we act out, thinking that that's what is appropriate for that particular moment in time.
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