Is It Possible To Just Be You?

of course it has a price even eating a double whopper with cheese has a price. eat too many and the belly might drag to the ground.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Hmm, not really, since what is ''you'' is constructed by society. You are in a box, which society has built, of how you should be. Within that box, you have a little space to do ''your own thing'', but on a macro scope of things, what is ''you'' is what your society says ''you'' is to be.

I get it. You're saying that society has already preassigned/judged me. Not me directly but, as a legacy. I've been sorted and classified into a group and it's unthinkable to have me to try to break free and evolve from the cocoon that is society's shallow exterior.

Originally posted by LethalFemme
I get it. You're saying that society has already preassigned/judged me. Not me directly but, as a legacy. I've been sorted and classified into a group and it's unthinkable to have me to try to break free and evolve from the cocoon that is society's shallow exterior.

I get it, you all want to sound really scientific and smart while talking nonsense, right?

Originally posted by Bardock42
I get it, you all want to sound really scientific and smart while talking nonsense, right?

For some but, for me I just generally get it. 😛

Originally posted by LethalFemme
Is it? Many people seem shock and in disbelief when something other than a joke leaves my lips. Like I'm incapable of intelligence. Is there a balance or are we doomed to be one or the other?

There's a balance. But if you're normally joking then sometimes people find it hard to accept the fact that yes, you can also be serious. My friend had this problem a couple of years ago and it got to the point where I was the only one who took her seriously. Since then though, she's learned to be serious around the people who understand her and just happy and bouncy around the people that don't.

I'm not sure it is possible to be just be 'you'. That whole "nature vs. nurture" argument basically says that both alter your development, so while people may have a predisposition towards any personality trait, everything around you affects that.

it is hard to be you around others, because your personality is different, however slighty around different people. You are only you when you are alone.

Its too hard to be just you, there are many external things influencing you... many voices in your head telling you to do things, and behave in a certain way.... and you would like these voices were really external voices, but they are part of you.

Originally posted by Imaginary
There's a balance. But if you're normally joking then sometimes people find it hard to accept the fact that yes, you can also be serious. My friend had this problem a couple of years ago and it got to the point where I was the only one who took her seriously. Since then though, she's learned to be serious around the people who understand her and just happy and bouncy around the people that don't.

Do I know this friend?

Originally posted by LethalFemme
Do I know this friend?

No, she's one of my RL friends and isn't a member of KMC.

Originally posted by Imaginary
No, she's one of my RL friends and isn't a member of KMC.

kay😊

Hmmm...I think it's possible...depending on your company. I find that I am myself around my family & certain friends because I am most comfortable with them...they would never judge me. But with others...well..I tend to alter myself slightly. For example, with one group of friends, I'm always rolling out jokes because they see me as the joker of the group.

I really think that in front of certain people, we have to adopt a different attitude. It's instinct as if. But I like to be JUST myself, with whoever it is. I dont change for others.

You don't think that others influence you at all?

Originally posted by Roulette
You don't think that others influence you at all?

We all act different around certain people.

Bah! Humbug!

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Bah! Humbug!

Did you give those health benefits to Tiny Tim and his family?😛

Yep... then after he got all fixed up I went back to their house and broke his legs again. 'Cause I'm not just an arsehole I'm a sadistic arsehole... it's always possible to just be me.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Yep... then after he got all fixed up I went back to their house and broke his legs again. 'Cause I'm not just an arsehole I'm a sadistic arsehole... it's always possible to just be me.

So it is.shock

Originally posted by Imaginary
No, she's one of my RL friends and isn't a member of KMC.

HAHAHAHAH, RL friends...HAHAHAHAHAHAH...wait...you are serious? You have those ...I envy you cry