The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth
27th September 2018
Especially if you’re on Facebook.
We all want other people to “get us” and appreciate us for who we really are. In striving to achieve such relationships, we typically assume that there is a “real me”. But how do we actually know who we are? It may seem simple – we are a product of our life experiences, which we can be easily accessed through our memories of the past.
This is true only for people whose primary self-image is derived from how they are evaluated by other people. Tattoos and piercings and odd hair colors and strange clothing is the metastasized form of that.