Find Your Self
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I guess the difference between an owl and a person is that an owl is true to itself already. An owl doesn't need to find itself because the owl is simply an owl. No one tells the owl how to act or how to think, it's completely true to itself.
Us, on the other hand, from the moment we are born are told how to behave, how to act, how to dress, how to speak, what we must do when we're older. Everyone around us has expectations and demands of us. We watch TV and the read the news which shapes us even further.
By the time we are adults we are almost completely a product of our surroundings and our upbringing... and our thoughts. Our thoughts which aren't really our own but more like echoes of our surroundings and manifestations of our insecurities born from our artificial and pretentious surroundings.
The owl is truly an owl, perfectly what it was always designed to be, but we are more complicated, more artificial and more programmed than that. I can see the merit in wanting to "find yourself", to understand the more true part of yourself that inevitably has taken a backseat behind the static of our totally artificial modern life.
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- Who~ who~ who~pango
- I guess I never give a fuck what others think of me. Or do what other tells me to. I am what i am because I learnd how to survive in this modern life...pango
- ...Comfortable enough.pango
- Almost everyone spends at the very least the first 13 years of their lives doing nothing but what others tell them to do.set
- And maybe that's why I feel unrelatable when people say "find your self"pango
- By which time your personality has been formed.set
- You can tell yourself you're different all you like, but it's bullshit
:)set - Modern society is something that was also created by humans. So how do you define artificial vs. natural?yuekit
- I'd say you have better chance to express yourself in modern society than you did in primitive society where most time was spent hunting and gathering food.yuekit
- maybe that's the cause? We are too free or have too much time to trying to be different then others and have our own identity. instead of just be true with ourpango
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so what if you are similar to other people. maybe it's ok to be similar to other people.pango - I never said it wasn'tset
- Not saying what you said wrong. Just saying summery and conclusion.pango
- Yea, I see your pointset
- The comparison would have worked better with an animal that does not care for it's young (i.e. receives no "education" ).ORAZAL
- Your life seems so burdened, it must take great effort to wake up in the morning. I salute you oh brave one!ORAZAL
- just telling someone to "just be" is not going to do much if they dont have to tools to get to that point.yurimon
- The fuck are you on about orazal? Garnering that from what I said says everything about your state of mind. I'm thoroughly happy and enjoy my time on earthset
- Orazal has a subscription to issues. best leave him alone. cant get over stuff n seems to fester in negativity.yurimon