About personalities.

As so many wonderful posts begin, I had a girlfriend. So, apparently, did Percy Bysse Shelley. In fact, he had several. But that seems somehow to be beside the point: Mr Shelley didn’t have an internet connection, much less one that decides to randomly disconnect based on mood. That is also beside the point.

But I had a girlfriend that disliked my personality. Alright, so she liked me in private, up close and personal - just, not so much in public. I was, she said, two different people. There’s a problem there, of course. Public and private settings demand different things of different people, and they present a different set of opportunities. That is to say that it’s impossible to abstract a person from their surroundings.

It’s like a wife asking her husband why he’s not the same person at a baseball game as he is when they’re off somewhere cannoodling or something. The question is, why would you want him to be? Maybe he’s funny and charming in public because he feels nervous in crowds. Maybe he feels relaxed around you and likes to be serious and likes to take care of you. Does that seem like two different people? Maybe. I’d rather like to think of it as different facets of a personality manifesting themselves in different situations.

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Posted July 5th, 2005 in main.

17 comments:

  1. Laurs:

    Percy’s Love Philosophy rocks my socks!

    July 6th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
  2. Inquisitive:

    had?

    July 6th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
  3. Laurs:

    He’s had loads ;)

    July 6th, 2005 at 11:14 pm
  4. Roger:

    I think I’m like that, too. Introvert in public, extrovert in private.

    Sounds like you might have been an extrovert in public, though.

    July 7th, 2005 at 12:39 am
  5. Inquisitive:

    hmmm….

    July 7th, 2005 at 1:00 am
  6. Laurs:

    What kinda comment is “hmm” ? :P

    July 7th, 2005 at 6:36 am
  7. daniel:

    Loads of them? Hardly. Just four. In five years.

    July 7th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
  8. Laurs:

    Hence the wink.. who cares?

    July 7th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
  9. daniel:

    I DO!!!!!!!

    July 7th, 2005 at 7:36 pm
  10. Laurs:

    Why?

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
  11. daniel:

    I may have been joking. I could have a million or so and I’d be like “yeah… so I had a girlfriend or two…”

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
  12. Laurs:

    you need a better hobby then “joking”

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
  13. daniel:

    Alright… hey… can I make my hobby making you into a pleasant person?

    Oops. I was joking again.

    Crap.

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
  14. Laurs:

    There’s a helpless case :D

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
  15. daniel:

    I like helpless cases.

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:52 pm
  16. Laurs:

    ye

    July 7th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
  17. Roger:

    What about basket cases?

    July 8th, 2005 at 1:30 am

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