In Response to the Response to Cam’s “Who Am I?” :D

Hey everyone! 😊 I am slowly running out of ideas for my intro. It feels a bit strange because I have been writing these blog posts for almost two months, but I still have not yet improved my ability to come up with a smart and interesting introduction. I am not going to make a big of a deal out of this. Let’s just dive in today’s blog post.           

        

           In this week’s blog post I wanted to talk about something a bit more philosophical, and after seeing Cam’s and Calvin’s posts I have decided to write “In Response to the Response to Cam’s “Who Am I?” :D. This entire idea of “wearing masks” is not really alien to human beings, especially in our day and age. We all have encountered this concept, this idea of wearing masks, in our everyday lives. Some of us decided, to ignore it. Some of us decide to confront it and figure out what is going on, and some of decided to make this shapeshifting dilemma as a part of our everyday life. I personally could relate to the third category.  

         

            At some point in my life, I have realized that I am not “being myself” in certain situations, and that was the moment when asked myself. Why do people put those “masks” on?  Why is it such a common practice? It did not take long to figure that out. I have started noticing that I had my own masks as well. Sometimes, people even would say that I was being completely different from my “usual” self.

To be concise, I agree with Calvin’s point regarding this entire discussion regarding “masks” and “the society”. Humans tend to overdramatize some things, and I believe that this concept is one of them. We tend to overthink some of the simplest things in our lives. From what I have learned so far, I can derive that those social masks, which each of us loves to utilize in an everyday life, are an essential part of our social existence. The questions like, “What are those masks and who am I?” are actually quite simple but they are not easy at all. My answer to these questions is quite straight forward. You are those masks. One does not choose those social masks out of the blue. It all comes from one’s experience, knowledge, and preestablished character.

I personally believe that there is nothing wrong with having different “masks”. As Calvin pointed out in his blog post, “I prefer to think of it as switches. When I act differently, I am not diverging from my own base behavior, I am merely changing what parts are exemplified.”  It is indeed true, you are still yourself even though you might act differently. Everyone has their behavioral base and all the decisions are being derived from that base.

To conclude, I do not see a reason why one would overcomplicate this. My suggestion would be to do your best to understand what your behavioral base is and try to improve or change it as you wish. We live this life only once, so let’s do our best to learn as much as we can and see where it would lead us.

A.G.)