Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Resolving myself

In my last post I had written:
... remind 'real-world-me' of its inconsistencies with the 'inner-me'
Reading the post over again I was posed with the questions
What is the inner-me and what is the real-world-me? (The Question)
I really don't have a right answer! At best I can attempt to hypothesize on it.

Whatever I am, whether it is the real-world-me or inner-me, both are products of my environment and my upbringing; so this differentiation of real-world-me and inner-me are artificial. The nearest I can come to differentiating between the 2 is in terms of the core principles that one believes in. I believe that everyone has a set of principles (core-principles) by which one is tries to live; the inner-me wants to live by those principles, whereas the real-world-me compromises when it becomes inevitable in the real world. Whenever, there is a deviation from the said principles, the inner-me suffers an agony untold, whereas the real-world-me cooks up all possible justifications for the deviations.

Some points to keep in mind:
Core values can be different for different people
Core values by themselves cannot be termed as 'right' or 'wrong', because right and wrong are individual perceptions. But core values of a person would be considered by that person as 'right".
There is nothing absolute about core values either - they are again the result of the environment.

So it's all in one's mind. :-) -A Revelation?

2 comments:

Hip Grandma said...

You are right except that apart from upbringing one's genes also matter.Children brought up in the same household end up behaving differently.That is because while the nurture is the same one's nature is different.

Uma said...

OldTimer I miss you!!!!!!! :(