Jun 17, 2007 02:52
Amazing how hypocritical this all might sound, but somethings can't be changed. A lot of things in life, specially what makes or changes a person is how they accept things, I can think of two examples but I'll go with a more stereotypical type, being death.
What is dead stays dead, no matter whatever guilt or raw emotion that rips through your body, minor to major, any amount of grief will not be reflected back to the past, to undo what has already happened. Instead, it can have more a mirror effect, on how others see you from that point on, depending on how you re-adjust to what happened.
More so, for whatever amount of control that we lose, it'll come back in time, maybe not all of it, depending on how far someone can slip into hubris (Ha, little LARP term there), but we will always maintain a difference between our persona. It is stated that there different sub concious levels, the id being the child that does not understand their actions, but only drives for their own desire, and there's the super-ego, which governs and acts as parental morality for the id, majority of people have a level of control to balance out the two with ego, that mediates between the two. For example, when the id impulses (e.g. desire to have sexual relations with a stranger) conflict with the superego (e.g. belief in societal conventions of not having sex with unknown persons), the feelings of anxiety come to the surface. To reduce these negative feelings, the ego might use defense mechanisms.
Since I'm ranting on, the major point is what defense mechanism we use in that case is reflected on how we are as a person in whole, and how others will see you as a person as well. I would assume that a majority of people can make a choice what their defense mechanism is based on how they deal with people normally and whom they deal with, as obviously for me, there are different levels on how I deal with people.
Uh, by now, I really forgot the whole key concept in general but it's written here somewhere, take it for what you will.