Whenever I talk to someone, I tend to change my tone. It's different for different people. I try to get onto the same level as the person I'm talking to, or rather, I try to become the person I'm talking to. If I talk to a person in English, and for them, English is a language hard to communicate in, I tend to communicate like them, to make similar mistakes, to copy the same tone. If someone speaks in a local dialect I try to speak with them in the same way. I tend to imitate the actions and behavioural patterns of the person I'm talking to. My sub-conscious just maneuvers my brain to behave like that. It feels weird.
The thing I can't understand is why it happens. Do I wish everyone were equal? Yes, I do, however, I don't think a thought process like that would change subtleties of behaviour.
Is it because I don't know who I am? Am I trying to fit into different shoes, hoping to find a pair which fit? To be honest, I have never been able to describe my personality in a way which sounds perfect to me, it just changes constantly.
Does not knowing who you are eventually make you succumb to having no identity? Do you not have any characteristics which separate you from another person? Are you just one man who imitates twenty? Are you yourself or are you somebody else? How does one truly get to know you, when you don't understand who you are yourself?
Maybe someday, I'll find a disguise which fits properly. That day hopefully, the veil of the several other impersonations will come off.
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