They say we all have our different selves, and that people suffering from DID are the ones that simply cannot cope with that.
Dunno how many girls live inside my head but i know that most of the time, they fail to feel the same things. There's the happy, the stressed, the guilty, the annoyed, the hopeful, the stubborn, the lonely... and they all want their 15 minutes.
No wonder people feel i'm nuts.
But then, it's not like i ever existed without them... I guess we humans can get quite selective in the inputs we care to process.
The rest is filtered out and we pretend it was never there to begin with.
" I guess we humans can get quite selective in the inputs we care to process. The rest is filtered out and we pretend it was never there to begin with."
ReplyDeleteThis reminded me of something I read a couple of months ago, so I looked it up :
"In this world, there is originally no such thing as the 'Truth' or the 'Lie'. There are only cold hard facts. Regardless, everything that exists in this world lives by mistakenly recognizing only the 'Facts' that are convenient for them as 'The Truth'. This is because they possess no other way to live."
(Who said that mischievous super-villains cannot be intellectual and have interesting world views?)
The question, at least in my mind, ultimately is : What do you do when your "bad" alter-ego's get in the way of you doing the right things?
Well, personally I don't think they're "bad" alter-egos; they're just part of who we are. And doing "the right things" ...? Well that's a concept as poorly defined as "the Truth" it self!
ReplyDeleteI believe the answer in your question (at least in my mind as you say too) is that having to deal with the consequences of the actions of all of our alter-egos is part of life, whether we like it or not.
To think that we only bring joy to the people around us by doing "the right things" all the time is naive. So when we don't, it's a great opportunity to get off our freaking pedestal and finally realize we're not perfect. At all.
PS. "mischievous super-villains"... I wonder where this abstract came from!