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Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn
Ah.... I see.... But I'm still having a hard time accepting that I was thinking anything but that it was the right thing. You know??? I'm still very confused on some of this.
Because this makes me not a very nice person and I want to be a nice person.
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Can’t we think one thing while having an ulterior motive that even we may not be fully aware of?
Which I don’t think equals “not a very nice person,” just like manipulating =/= bad.
And if defining yourself as a nice person is dependent on others seeing you as nice, then isn’t it still the same behavior? Could you ever be sure you weren’t doing things to get others to see you as nice?
Like Piaf’s business card said from Hamlet,
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Piaf’s true self turned out to be not very nice, but at least she didn’t hide it.