do you have a lot of personalities?

[Sarellah]

and where do we pick up these personalities from?

 

[Totoro]

I think we have one personality with many aspects to it and over the course and circumstances of each of our lives, we may develop certain parts more than others.


I suppose you can think of it a bit like how you go to work and you're one person and you come home and suddenly, you're another person. Home and work each have their environments that you respond to by bringing different aspects of your personality to the front and rear.


I think it's an interesting process and it can be quite surprising too! I was just explaining this to someone else and I offered myself as an example and I said that I feel equally at home in a dress and playing the piano as I would practicing hand to hand combat and shooting machine guns.. :laugh:

 

[usetawuz]

Nicely described, Totoro.

 

[Cryscat]

Bravo Totoro! Nicely done. That's what I was thinking.

 

[usetawuz]

I said that I feel equally at home in a dress and playing the piano as I would practicing hand to hand combat and shooting machine guns.. :laugh:

This struck me very clearly...and it is so true...just get past the societal stigma and everyone could easily play the role of the other sex. My experience in doing so in a stage play felt like second nature. When I doffed my large and ornate wig at the conclusion of the performance I could hear the gasps and applause...funny that the role was of a strong woman, and it felt refreshing as my latest past life female role was not strong at all...in some way I felt I was living as she should have.


Along a slightly different tack, my sister is a very powerful, capable woman...very feminine though lets nothing stand in the way of what she wants to do. She has been my brother in at least three past lives and we were always very competitive. Her personality as that brother of mine is the same now that she is my sister...her capability and direct focus as those brothers is very evident except it is now in a different "package". She'd still like to beat me in anything we do, but she tempers it with my ability in this lifetime to "not engage"! When we were kids that really ticked her off.