Other people have said the whole "always changing" thing, but I'd say somewhere in 2006. That's when I went from weird and nice to asshole, i'd always been good at being a bit of a dick, but that was the year I learned how to push it farther. I'm not proud of it but it was a rather large part of my life.
When did you become you?
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Replace "wife" with "girlfriend" and that's pretty much me.imperialwar said:
I can still come across as misanthropic as ever, but the difference now is that there is actually someone in there who cares. I'm much more emotionally open than I used to be, even if I still seem like a massive cynic at times. I still feel indifference bordering on contempt for most people, but I'm much more prepared to meet them and hear their side of the story now.
Actually I was referring to this.Mykonos said:
Loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side
The secret is to remember that there is a life equation too.
At a random point in time I think in 2007 where I just stopped giving a shit about what people thought of me (think it might have been around the time I started going to gigs...) and so I started become more of an extrovert, started doing things I would normally be too self-conscious to do, stuff like that. Guess I kind of realised that you only live once, if there's anything you want to do just go for it instead of wondering about what could happen.
Alright, I'll take this one seriously.
In my younger days I was fairly insecure about myself and my abilities, but halfway through my ninth grade I found a really great group of friends and from that point forward I've been confident, genuine person.
I guess I'm still changing, but that was a defining moment as for who I am today. Goes to show that your environment has a huge impact on a person's life.
In my younger days I was fairly insecure about myself and my abilities, but halfway through my ninth grade I found a really great group of friends and from that point forward I've been confident, genuine person.
I guess I'm still changing, but that was a defining moment as for who I am today. Goes to show that your environment has a huge impact on a person's life.
Seconded. I'm just 18 years old, still in a time of rapid (personal) growth and development. Right now I'm slowly on the road of recovery from a really depressed period. I don't know when I'm fine again, or what "fine" in this case even means, but that's of later concerns. I don't look in the future too much.Soet Poet said:
As a person, I haven't majorly changed the way in which I thought since I was about 11, years old, when I made the actual conscious decision to try and analyze everything. My knowledge has increased, and I daresay I have acquired and lost a few prejudices along the way, but I think I'm more or less the same core person (i'm 18 now)
As other people have said, we're all constantly changing etc, but I think that on 25th March 2009, the most significant change happened - I signed up on here. Before then, I had no confidence and felt like my life had crashed into a brick wall. I still find it hard to be positive, but it's getting easier. So thanks to all the great guys (and Sky!) that I chat to on here.
I have absolutely no idea who I am other than a dude who looks suspiciously like me and wears my clothes.
There were two times I became "me."
The first was when I graduated from high school. Up to that point I was the loner in high school: I only had one or two people I would consider friends, I was depressed, and I felt that nobody really understood me. When I graduated and moved from Houston to Oklahoma for college I decided to reinvent myself. I went through rush and (unknowingly at the time) joined a party-hard frat, made a lot of friends, opened up, and generally became a more cheerful person.
The second time was when I graduated from OU last week. It was a huge shell shock of "holy crap I'm a college graduate," mixed with the anticipation of starting grad school in Missouri next semester.
I'll probably change again when I get started with the program, but who knows?
The first was when I graduated from high school. Up to that point I was the loner in high school: I only had one or two people I would consider friends, I was depressed, and I felt that nobody really understood me. When I graduated and moved from Houston to Oklahoma for college I decided to reinvent myself. I went through rush and (unknowingly at the time) joined a party-hard frat, made a lot of friends, opened up, and generally became a more cheerful person.
The second time was when I graduated from OU last week. It was a huge shell shock of "holy crap I'm a college graduate," mixed with the anticipation of starting grad school in Missouri next semester.
I'll probably change again when I get started with the program, but who knows?
When I smashed the TV, burned the newspaper, left home, threw all my money away, took all my clothes off, lied down, shut my eyes, faded away, passed out, died, met God and he asked "Who are you?" and I told him a name I didn't choose, the place I was born, the house I lived in, the school I learned in, the factory I earned in, the music I danced to and the people the talked to, when he said "So, who are you?" when- unless I was quick- I'd be stuck, and then- because I was quick- I said "I am a mass of chemicals co-ordinated by the will to live, and with the ability to acknowledge my seperate existence, as oppoesd to the theoretical existence of the rest of the universe, including you." at which point, God dissappeared, leaving me in charge and therefore by definition, I became myself.
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf6kmAIPEaY
It talks about the fact that you're never actually you because there's so many different influences in the world.
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf6kmAIPEaY
It talks about the fact that you're never actually you because there's so many different influences in the world.
I, like all people, grow and change as I experience new things. As for how I generally am, a mixture of genes and complex child/regular psychology. Growing up in a family that loves Babylon 5 and Star Trek, Pokemon, getting a Sega Genesis for Christmas, and the internet were pretty big influences on me (about the Pokemon, no I don't go around trying to catch animals in balls, it and the internet led me on to anime that don't involve collecting things for a game).
I agree with Zombie_Fish to an extent. Arguably, there is no "you" without direct or indirect influences from society. The purest form of you would have existed in the womb, but then there wouldn't really be a you- personality wise - at all. You is just a construct of definitions given by yourself and others.
That being said, I suppose I'm not sure when I became me. The me would only be a representation of a single moment of time, and it could be argued that I'm not even me yet.
That being said, I suppose I'm not sure when I became me. The me would only be a representation of a single moment of time, and it could be argued that I'm not even me yet.
ever heard the song Fields Of Innocence by Evanescence? im kinda like that now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsMx76igw6k
here's the song if anyones interested XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsMx76igw6k
here's the song if anyones interested XD