sorendreier.com December 11  2013

In a social setting, depending on who we are interacting with, we will both consciously and unconsciously adopt a persona, that is, filter our interpersonal output.

For various practical-personal-societal-selfish reasons, coffee with friends, supermarket exchanges with attractive strangers and telephone exchanges with telesales operatives will likely as not see us showing different sides of ourselves.

It is the extent to which we undergo this personality change (and whether it’s your own personality or someone else’s that you’re consciously expressing) dictates whether or not we are, through this, to be considered duplicitous.

We are not unaffected by our immediate physical surroundings. We interact with them, and are in turn affected by their impact on us. It’s the same with people, and it’s probable that we affect each other more than the physical world affects us.

The expression ”he/she/it brings out the best/worst in me” explains my thoughts on this subject quite well. I think in the fullest sense, our “selves” are multi-faceted. Kind of like a colour spectrum. And the magnetic nature of people and their personality traits will evoke something of a similar kind in the people that they are around, depending on the extent to which other people have that same personality trait in their deep psyche.

We can be each other’s safety net. We can also be each other’s restricting tether. If you view a human soul as the seed of a plant, whose mission (as it were) is to come to full bloom, then our ‘duty’ here is to nourish the seed, give it what it needs to grow.

That is to say, to provide the conditions in which healthy growth can occur. I would say that if you’re wanting to change the world, start with yourself. Charity begins at home. Create the conditions in which you can become “better”.

Tend your inner fire, maintain it, and you cannot but grow, become stronger and pave the way for others to do the same. As an aside, the world won’t be saved by the implementation of some new kind of political-social system. Any system is only as just or corrupt as the ones who uphold it. In the end it always and only comes down to individual people.

Ignore the insidious saying that all humans are Born equal. All humans are equal. We have the same power, in the same quantity. We exert this power in the first instance, and most incisively, through our thoughts. Individual abilities and talents vary.

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