Posted by SLS on June 12, 2009, at 4:57:22
In reply to Re: I'm still alive, and still on Nardil:) » SLS, posted by ace on June 11, 2009, at 21:12:24
> > A certain minority of absolutely mentally healthy people are going to have high energy, high creativity, strong egos, profound optimism, entrepreneurial spirit, absolute spontaneity, etc. = eccentricities? Perhaps you are just being who you are.
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> >
> > - Scott
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> Hey Scott,
>
> I am "absolutely mentally healthy"? or are you contrasting me with such people?Neither.
> Did my posts convey to you a spirit of "high energy, high creativity, strong egos, profound optimism, entrepreneurial spirit, absolute spontaneity"?!Some of that, yes.
> Sorry, I am not sure I interpreted your post correctly, and I am very tired!> This issue of 'being yourself'...
> Even when we...
Let's just stick with *you*.
> ...act in ways which are antithetical to the way we feel, believe, etc etc about something, we are still very much being ourselves, I feel.
For a very long time, I struggled very hard to sculpt my inside to look like the way I thought the people around me were when looking at their outside. I was not true to the me that was already there.
> We are being oursleves by not acting in congruence with our true, authentic desires. We are being ourselves by not being ourselves!
That seems to be more of a philosophical stretch than a phenomenological truth.
> This troubles me sometimes,
Why? In what way?
> although I am not sure if my OCD symptomatology is coming into play here.....
> Hope all is going well for you mate,
I've hit some low spots, but generally, I have been okay. Thanks.
By the way, the things I said in my previous post were meant to be a hypothetical, which if applied to you, would have been a most flattering one
- Scott
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