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- [ The Real You? ] [ By The GNN ]
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- THE REAL YOU?
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- Without exaggerating, I guess I have read more than one billion t-files
- written by people who, in the end, have just one message to put forward to
- their readers: "You do not know the real me!".
- Teenagers experiencing the worst part of their puberty, low-class poets
- without talent, wanna-be drug-addicts, or just simple alienated human beings
- without any clear goal in their life. All of them try to hide their lack of
- imagination, boring lives and self-defeating behavior with this hopelessly
- empty and insignificant cliche. Perhaps you have not written any t-file about
- this yourself, but I am quite confident that you have used the statement in
- question - in front of others and/or (even worse) in front of yourself.
- Whenever I run into a person who shamelessly forces me to take part of
- this highly uninteresting fact about the world - that no one really knows the
- real me/you/them/her/him/it - the first thought that pops into my mind is not
- "How clarifying!" but "Who cares?". Because it is nothing more than a truism
- that we have the best insight of all when it comes to ourselves. From the
- knowledge we have about ourselves, we sometimes try to draw conclusions on
- how other people are constituted. Of course, such conclusions are often
- defective and incomplete, because our own 'me' is attached with certain
- prejudices and egotistical assumptions that we are unable to get rid of. But
- that is the way it is - and it is certainly nothing new.
- However, what really bothers me is that the people who are so interested
- in informing me about the hidden parts of themselves do not present this
- truism as a mere and simple fact, equal to 1+1=2. Behind 'you do not know me'
- one find several other entailing, but not openly said or written, statements.
- The first one is, naturally, "... so don't you tell me how I am!". No one
- enjoys having their personalities involuntarily analyzed by other people, no
- question about that, but I wonder why the person (who claimed that no one
- should tell him how he is) assumes that anyone would like to do that? The
- reason for this is given in the second entailing statement: "... and 'me'
- (the inner parts of myself) is so damn interesting that you all ought to
- wanna know about it, but I won't let you have it, so don't say anything."
- So, there it is. "You don't know the real me" is in reality only a
- paraphrase for "If you knew the real me (as I do) you would be amazed what a
- great person I am."
- A question that follows quite naturally from this is why the person who
- contains such a great personality cannot show it to the public? Without
- upholding ourselves with mindless speculations, let us get to the answer at
- once: because the person is merely trying to deceive others. The 'myself' he
- or she refers to, does not exist. The person states the unavailability of his
- inner domains because he does not know it himself - but he tries to give the
- impression that he knows. He wants to be someone, he wants to know something,
- he wants to know himself - but he cannot, because he is nothing - and he does
- not even try; he just 'feels' that he is 'something'. Something better,
- something bigger than all other people around him.
- Ex hypothesis, it is then not really surprising to find that those who
- live boring and unsatisfying lives are often the very same persons who brag
- that no one knows their real them.
- There is also a strange contradiction in effect: those who claim the
- truism that other subjects do not have the insight in other subjects than
- themselves, suddenly states that they have a full insight in other subjects -
- and can without blushing claim that their own subject is richer and far more
- interesting than others.
- My only advice to people who hide their empty 'me' behind the veil of
- other people's seemingly ignorance is: shut up, and try to find yourself
- before you tell people how unaware they are about you. Because the only thing
- you have really revealed about yourself is that you do not know yourself. And
- this is of no interest to anyone else but - yourself.
- It is painful to get rid of a mask you have worn for the sake of other
- people, but it is even worse to discover that you have used the same mask in
- front of yourself. But the pain of removing it is soon made up for - after it
- is gone, you will be able to lead a truly good life. But if you do not do it,
- your only drug for surviving your boring life will be to constantly claim
- that no one knows you. And that is for sure not a happy life - but it is
- unfortunately very common.
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