I read an article by a psychologist whose premise was that we change mentally, emotionally and physically every seven years. The 'who I am' today may not resemble the 'who I was yesterday.' Life is a journey of self-discovery and a continual evolution if, indeed, we are open to such discovery. And then there is the quandary of how much we choose to display the self to the world beyond our own psyche. Instincts and boundaries often prevail.
It seems that change can be every seven minutes. Identity wants to be so firm. It thinks it is, in that there's a 'balance point' where we find the 'authentic I'.
Everything away from there feels like distraction. We get annoyed being pulled from that place. Yet the 'pull' happens so often that its relative unsettledness may be more authentic than the place of balance?
And, as you also endorse, we hold back -- out of vulnerability or manipulation, caginess, agenda, doubt.
Ads have appeared linked to this blog for sales of anti-Obama material. I have been unsuccessful in getting 'systems satisfaction' to bar such linkage.
Any clueless machine-association between any of my opinions and those of the political right wing are utterly coincidental and strenuously eschewed.
I read an article by a psychologist whose premise was that we change mentally, emotionally and physically every seven years. The 'who I am' today may not resemble the 'who I was yesterday.' Life is a journey of self-discovery and a continual evolution if, indeed, we are open to such discovery. And then there is the quandary of how much we choose to display the self to the world beyond our own psyche. Instincts and boundaries often prevail.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that change can be every seven minutes. Identity wants to be so firm. It thinks it is, in that there's a 'balance point' where we find the 'authentic I'.
ReplyDeleteEverything away from there feels like distraction. We get annoyed being pulled from that place. Yet the 'pull' happens so often that its relative unsettledness may be more authentic than the place of balance?
And, as you also endorse, we hold back -- out of vulnerability or manipulation, caginess, agenda, doubt.