LIFE is a messy, confusing business. And as for reality, it sometimes seems to be nothing more than a collective hunch.
It is said that each of us is at least four different people—the person we think we are, the person others think we are, the person we think others think we are. And the person we really are.
Author Kurt Vonnegut said we are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend. Stephen King observed we lie best when we lie to ourselves.
So, if reality is relative, who are we really?
A father, a son, a single mother, a depression sufferer, company chairman, bricklayer, Christian, Buddhist, atheist? What might happen if those labels were removed?
George Harrison once remarked that his dog did not know, or care, that he was once a Beatle.
“And I am not really Beatle George,’’ he said.
“Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.’’
Cary Grant noted at the height of his screen fame that almost everyone he met wanted to be Cary Grant.
“Even I want to be Cary Grant,’’ he said, nicely summing up the delineation between film fantasy and the real man.
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Great post. How much time do we want to be like someone else just because of what they “appear” to be.
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I am one who created me. And is still creating the one I call me.
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Yep we’re all unfinished products aren’t we ?
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Never ending process dabbles. We are in permanent making. Day by day, moment by moment. Change is the only constant.
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Dabbles has changed into Bubba
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Good idea to try to see beyond the labels we put on others, particularly to see the best part of their nature, which when recognised, might bloom.
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Quite so :- ““Even I want to be Cary Grant,’’ he said, nicely summing up the delineation between film fantasy and the real man.”
,,,and a couple of billion others want to be like Jesus.
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