Wednesday, October 1, 2008

October?

For everyone there is a clear line between their private and public lives. It is always easy to switch back and forth between the two at will, because we really don't think about it consciously, we just switch to whatever seems more comfortable in the situation.

For me, private or public doesn't depend on whether or not i'm alone in a room or out in the world. It depends more on the people I am with and interacting with at the time. When i'm with some of my closest friends, I am able to be both my public and private self, because I can do things, and share things with them that I wouldn't be able to do with other people. On the other hand, when I am with people I don't typically interact with, I am more of my public self, meaning I present myself much more conservatively than a really am, because honestly, my true self can get a little ridiculous at times.

Currently I consider my home to be my dormroom, because that is wear I go to sleep at night, and I consider this place to be a public and private place, because even if my roomate is there, I get along with him very well so I am not worried about being myself in my own room. Of course I can't go all out and throw my personality all over the room all the time, because I can guarentee he might get a little annoyed by that. But I am completely comfortable being myself in my own room.

Overall I think when you are most comfortable with the people you are with, is when you are your true self, that being public and private, and are able to express any of your emotions at any given time. And honestly for me, and for most people, I am not in this situation very often, but I try and be myself in most all situations anyway.

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