How Am I Not Myself?
While watching the movie I (heart) Huckabees last year a very interesting question came about when one character asks “how am I not myself?” While joking around about the movie at a party one night the answer to this question all of the sudden came to me.
When you go about trying to answer this question you have to look at the “person” as two completely separate beings.
The first is the “Organic Being”. This is what you would be like if you never came into contact with the social world, your “pure being”. The second is the “Social Being”. This is the being that has been raised in an influential social world in which the personality is a mix of the one’s you’ve seen in your life. After understanding these two separate beings you can begin to answer the question of, “how am I not myself?”
The only real way to be completely you is to have been completely isolated from any kinds of social behaviour and to not even know they exist. It is in this organic state that you will be (in your mind at least) completely original and completely yourself because there would be nothing human that would have influenced you. This however is not really possible making it irrelevant to the question of being one’s self.
It is in the social world that this question truly takes shape. In the social world it is completely impossible to actually be yourself, that is if you look at it from the perspective that everything that makes us the person we are has somehow been influenced by another person that we have met in our life. On the other hand the types of experiences that influence us would be completely unique from another person. No two people could experience life in the exact same way. So in this sense, being yourself would simply be you just living. The things in your life that you enjoy, and the things that you do, are what make you who you are. So long as you keep doing what it is that you want to in life you will never not be yourself.
Greatness is influenced by greatness. For example John Lennon had Bob Dylan…
When you go about trying to answer this question you have to look at the “person” as two completely separate beings.
The first is the “Organic Being”. This is what you would be like if you never came into contact with the social world, your “pure being”. The second is the “Social Being”. This is the being that has been raised in an influential social world in which the personality is a mix of the one’s you’ve seen in your life. After understanding these two separate beings you can begin to answer the question of, “how am I not myself?”
The only real way to be completely you is to have been completely isolated from any kinds of social behaviour and to not even know they exist. It is in this organic state that you will be (in your mind at least) completely original and completely yourself because there would be nothing human that would have influenced you. This however is not really possible making it irrelevant to the question of being one’s self.
It is in the social world that this question truly takes shape. In the social world it is completely impossible to actually be yourself, that is if you look at it from the perspective that everything that makes us the person we are has somehow been influenced by another person that we have met in our life. On the other hand the types of experiences that influence us would be completely unique from another person. No two people could experience life in the exact same way. So in this sense, being yourself would simply be you just living. The things in your life that you enjoy, and the things that you do, are what make you who you are. So long as you keep doing what it is that you want to in life you will never not be yourself.
Greatness is influenced by greatness. For example John Lennon had Bob Dylan…
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posted by Glen. @ 4:20 PM
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So your answer is essentially that you can never not be yourself? Because that's the answer that I think the question is attempting to draw our attention to. What do you think?
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Four headed for the females theother four set out for the males at the double, saluting LT Kald as theypassed. I do.
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