today has been a roller coaster ride of attitudes for me. but overall i would say not a horrible day. A big thing was brought to my attention today through various instances.
People arent always who you think they are or who they portray themselves to be. i found out today that people can be one person when they are with some people and a completely different person around someone else. or they change depending on the people/personalities around them. and i dont mean just having a naturally rounded character...i mean being someone different.
how you can think someone is the sweetest person, and then find out that they too can disappoint you. how you could know someone for quite awhile and think you know them pretty well, and then find out later that the person who you thought you knew wasnt who that person really was at all, and everything about them seemed to be different. how people can so easily lead other people on. sometimes without realizing, but then again, sometimes knowingly do so. how someone can have really fun, sweet moments and then right after be insulting and rude.
however, some people can give you pleasant surprises. they can do something that you would never expect from them (something good).
earlier in the day when i was thinking about this humanistic trait, i was only seeing the negatives, but someone did something later tonight that was a pleasant character surprise. which reinforced that people arent always what you think, but thats not always a bad thing, good things could come of it too.
i know i am guilty of portraying different people/personalities at times, as are most people im sure. something i will from now on be more conscious of. and if for the people i've led on or hurt by not being truly me all the time, i ask forgiveness. i will do my best to be more true to myself and try harder to be more true to what God wants me to be
and if any of that didnt make since, then i blame the fact that is 5:20 am. and i need sleep. w00h00 for late nights in the theatre and trying to write blogs when you get back from them
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"i found out today that people can be one person when they are with some people and a completely different person around someone else. or they change depending on the people/personalities around them. and i dont mean just having a naturally rounded character...i mean being someone different."
Boy George sang a song specifically about this phenomenon... "Karma Chameleon."
That is exactly what he was singing about.
Quite an unfortunate character trait, but I think that it can be a necessary one. I'm not the same person at work as I am at home. Same kind of thing. However, I don't change who I am depending on which group of friends I am with.
It's good that you can recognize that trait in yourself as well as others.
I think this is a GREAT observation. I know that I, too, have been guilty of this in the past. I think it is in part to do with immaturity and ignorance...but I also think it is in part to do with discovering who we are as individuals. I am still trying to figure out who I am, who I'm becoming, and who I want to become...and when I find something that works, I try to be true to that. I feel like it is a hard balance to find...but something we all need to search for.
I think it's a more natural trait, not necessarily good or bad. Just human. Don't worry too much about "fixing it" or "finding a balance." All the roles you play still come back to the same girl. That's what I tell myself, anyway.
i hope you're not talking about me.
i know i've been hanging out with other people lately...i'm sorry.
It is tough when people change personalities like they change clothes. People want to feel accepted and will do anything to get acceptance. They will be anyone they need to be to make someone like them. It's terribly humanistic and terribly wrong, I agree.
I'm trying to get better at that. I've come to therms with the fact that I should always be who I am no matter what. I shouldn't care too much what people think of me. If someone doesn't like me for who I really am, then I don't want them liking me at all.
It's a tough tightrope to walk but we all have to figure out who we are and who we want to be.
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