Recent string of experiences has brought to the forefront this neglected emotion and the pertinent question that do we know anyone fully.
Look around yourself you see a sea of people staring back at you. Some you hold very dear, some you just like or have a crush on or are just fun to be at times.
1. Did you misread them?
2. Were they lying to you or pretending to be your friend all this time?
3. Do they just hang around you as they can derive some benefit from you?
4. Or the reaction that you got now is their true self?
I will say all of the above.
As human beings we have evolved ourselves to have a string of emotions and we have also devised ways to bottle up our personalities and be pretentious. The other animals or very closely related mammals don't have that. They react in a way that they feel about each other instantaneously. So this complex wiring of our brain has actually given us this pretending ability.
Sushimta Sen at one of her question answer rounds at Miss Universe remarked after being asked the question that how she manages her public and private persona, she said "Every human being MUST have two faces, It's very essential. One which you have for people in public and one which you have for yourself. Because these tow different things when mixed together makes you makes you a person who has just a personality which is fit for everybody else and not for one's own self and I think it's very essential that you have a private side to yourself, I have it too." (some goof ups there, but remarkable nonetheless!!)
Now just think about yourself in the same context and weigh yourself on the same scale as you would like to weigh everyone else. Do you pretend, have two faces like the famed Greek God "Janus". So is the world full of "Januses" (a plural of my own making)? I will leave you with this thought....
Look around yourself you see a sea of people staring back at you. Some you hold very dear, some you just like or have a crush on or are just fun to be at times.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus#/media/File:Janus1.JPG
You might think that you know them but sometimes they behave in strangest of ways against your perception of them. So what went wrong?1. Did you misread them?
2. Were they lying to you or pretending to be your friend all this time?
3. Do they just hang around you as they can derive some benefit from you?
4. Or the reaction that you got now is their true self?
I will say all of the above.
As human beings we have evolved ourselves to have a string of emotions and we have also devised ways to bottle up our personalities and be pretentious. The other animals or very closely related mammals don't have that. They react in a way that they feel about each other instantaneously. So this complex wiring of our brain has actually given us this pretending ability.
Sushimta Sen at one of her question answer rounds at Miss Universe remarked after being asked the question that how she manages her public and private persona, she said "Every human being MUST have two faces, It's very essential. One which you have for people in public and one which you have for yourself. Because these tow different things when mixed together makes you makes you a person who has just a personality which is fit for everybody else and not for one's own self and I think it's very essential that you have a private side to yourself, I have it too." (some goof ups there, but remarkable nonetheless!!)
Now just think about yourself in the same context and weigh yourself on the same scale as you would like to weigh everyone else. Do you pretend, have two faces like the famed Greek God "Janus". So is the world full of "Januses" (a plural of my own making)? I will leave you with this thought....
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