Comments on: Getting your multiple personality disorder on: figuring out what roles you play http://valeriemondesir.com/getting-your-multiple-personality-disorder-on-figuring-out-what-roles-you-play/ Thu, 17 May 2012 17:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: ForNot http://valeriemondesir.com/getting-your-multiple-personality-disorder-on-figuring-out-what-roles-you-play/comment-page-1/#comment-511 ForNot Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:27:33 +0000 http://valeriemondesir.com/?p=1069#comment-511 This is interesting, and maybe a bit depressing as well. If we are always the role player, and never the person, then who are we? In other words, I am Eli, JohnQ, Detective Alzono Harris, and JAke Shuttlesworth, but never Denzel Washington. I'm the character, and never the actor. So then how do you determine who you are if we're just an amalgamation of characters. I think that one of the "characters" is really the true us. It may not be the one we like the most, but it is the one that defines us best. <em><strong> Valerie M: Interesting perspective. I personally don't see it as depressing because it shows you can improve or change the aspects of yourself that are not benefitting you and your growth. The alternative (to me) would be refusal or reluctance to improve oneself, feeling hopeless to do so, and delegating your personality to genetics alone. We all know that is not true. However, I did mention my observation that we tend to stick to the same 3-4 roles consistently and to a specific degree. This could actually be defined as one's "self" rather than associating "self" with one specific role only. Humans are too complex for that, in my humble opinion. Looking at it from that way, the concept of "self" wouldn't totally be destroyed.</strong></em> .-= ForNot´s last blog ..<a href="http://forwardnotion.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/stepford-stuyvesant/" rel="nofollow">Stepford-Stuyvesant</a> =-. This is interesting, and maybe a bit depressing as well. If we are always the role player, and never the person, then who are we? In other words, I am Eli, JohnQ, Detective Alzono Harris, and JAke Shuttlesworth, but never Denzel Washington. I’m the character, and never the actor. So then how do you determine who you are if we’re just an amalgamation of characters.

I think that one of the “characters” is really the true us. It may not be the one we like the most, but it is the one that defines us best.

Valerie M: Interesting perspective. I personally don’t see it as depressing because it shows you can improve or change the aspects of yourself that are not benefitting you and your growth. The alternative (to me) would be refusal or reluctance to improve oneself, feeling hopeless to do so, and delegating your personality to genetics alone. We all know that is not true.

However, I did mention my observation that we tend to stick to the same 3-4 roles consistently and to a specific degree. This could actually be defined as one’s “self” rather than associating “self” with one specific role only. Humans are too complex for that, in my humble opinion. Looking at it from that way, the concept of “self” wouldn’t totally be destroyed.

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