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How am I not myself?

In the BRILLIANT film I Heart Huckabees, there is a scene where Jude law is being confronted about his life and the things he does over and over for people's adoration. The scene oddly ends, with the repetition of one phrase: "How am I not myself?" How are you not yourself?

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I am not myself when I'm around people I like. I get so nervous I'll mess up, so I just go with it ya know? It's ridiculous.

I wear dress shoes to church. i used to wear sandals. it was a question in my heart if i did it to slack off, and i made sure to keep a heart of worship when i wore those sandals. however i belong to a church with a traditional worship style. My faith is what it is and i'm not going to abandon it. But I do wear dress shoes now so that my fellow congregants dont have to deal with that inner conflict. It's a 1 Corinthians 9 thing. Day will come when my neighbors will be able to handle sandals on a guy, but until then i'll take smaller steps. someone will invariably say i should go to a different church, or just wear them anyway, or that it is a small issue. no. baby steps. it really isn't.

When backed into a wall or forced to respond!

I'm not myself everytime I accept things in my personal life that go agaisnt my core values.. I sacrifice who I am for the people I care about. Everytime I watch "Wizards of Waverly Place" it's not because I want to or because that's who I am, it's because my little sister wants to, and I love her. That's just on a small scall. It's to please others. And it can be an okay thing, but it can also be a very not okay thing.

Well, sometimes I do feel like a nut....and sometimes I don't. Wierd.

you can act like you're someone else, mostly if you're forced to do so by others.

As defined by the terms "ego dystonic" and "ego syntonic" by psychologists. It can be googled.

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How am I not myself?

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I am not myself when I'm around people I like. I get so nervous I'll mess up, so I just go with it ya know? It's ridiculous.

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When backed into a wall or forced to respond!

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Well, sometimes I do feel like a nut....and sometimes I don't. Wierd.

philg

you can act like you're someone else, mostly if you're forced to do so by others.

chantarella

As defined by the terms "ego dystonic" and "ego syntonic" by psychologists. It can be googled.

How am I not myself?

I am not myself when I'm around people I like. I get so nervous I'll mess up, so I just go with it ya know? It's ridiculous.

When backed into a wall or forced to respond!

Well, sometimes I do feel like a nut....and sometimes I don't. Wierd.

you can act like you're someone else, mostly if you're forced to do so by others.

As defined by the terms "ego dystonic" and "ego syntonic" by psychologists. It can be googled.

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