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Underground eXperts United
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[ The Real You? ] [ By The GNN ]
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THE REAL YOU?
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by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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Without exaggerating, I guess I have read more than one billion t-files
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written by people who, in the end, have just one message to put forward to
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their readers: "You do not know the real me!".
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Teenagers experiencing the worst part of their puberty, low-class poets
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without talent, wanna-be drug-addicts, or just simple alienated human beings
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without any clear goal in their life. All of them try to hide their lack of
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imagination, boring lives and self-defeating behavior with this hopelessly
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empty and insignificant cliche. Perhaps you have not written any t-file about
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this yourself, but I am quite confident that you have used the statement in
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question - in front of others and/or (even worse) in front of yourself.
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Whenever I run into a person who shamelessly forces me to take part of
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this highly uninteresting fact about the world - that no one really knows the
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real me/you/them/her/him/it - the first thought that pops into my mind is not
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"How clarifying!" but "Who cares?". Because it is nothing more than a truism
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that we have the best insight of all when it comes to ourselves. From the
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knowledge we have about ourselves, we sometimes try to draw conclusions on
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how other people are constituted. Of course, such conclusions are often
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defective and incomplete, because our own 'me' is attached with certain
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prejudices and egotistical assumptions that we are unable to get rid of. But
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that is the way it is - and it is certainly nothing new.
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However, what really bothers me is that the people who are so interested
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in informing me about the hidden parts of themselves do not present this
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truism as a mere and simple fact, equal to 1+1=2. Behind 'you do not know me'
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one find several other entailing, but not openly said or written, statements.
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The first one is, naturally, "... so don't you tell me how I am!". No one
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enjoys having their personalities involuntarily analyzed by other people, no
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question about that, but I wonder why the person (who claimed that no one
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should tell him how he is) assumes that anyone would like to do that? The
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reason for this is given in the second entailing statement: "... and 'me'
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(the inner parts of myself) is so damn interesting that you all ought to
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wanna know about it, but I won't let you have it, so don't say anything."
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So, there it is. "You don't know the real me" is in reality only a
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paraphrase for "If you knew the real me (as I do) you would be amazed what a
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great person I am."
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A question that follows quite naturally from this is why the person who
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contains such a great personality cannot show it to the public? Without
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upholding ourselves with mindless speculations, let us get to the answer at
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once: because the person is merely trying to deceive others. The 'myself' he
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or she refers to, does not exist. The person states the unavailability of his
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inner domains because he does not know it himself - but he tries to give the
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impression that he knows. He wants to be someone, he wants to know something,
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he wants to know himself - but he cannot, because he is nothing - and he does
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not even try; he just 'feels' that he is 'something'. Something better,
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something bigger than all other people around him.
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Ex hypothesis, it is then not really surprising to find that those who
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live boring and unsatisfying lives are often the very same persons who brag
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that no one knows their real them.
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There is also a strange contradiction in effect: those who claim the
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truism that other subjects do not have the insight in other subjects than
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themselves, suddenly states that they have a full insight in other subjects -
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and can without blushing claim that their own subject is richer and far more
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interesting than others.
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My only advice to people who hide their empty 'me' behind the veil of
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other people's seemingly ignorance is: shut up, and try to find yourself
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before you tell people how unaware they are about you. Because the only thing
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you have really revealed about yourself is that you do not know yourself. And
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this is of no interest to anyone else but - yourself.
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It is painful to get rid of a mask you have worn for the sake of other
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people, but it is even worse to discover that you have used the same mask in
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front of yourself. But the pain of removing it is soon made up for - after it
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is gone, you will be able to lead a truly good life. But if you do not do it,
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your only drug for surviving your boring life will be to constantly claim
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that no one knows you. And that is for sure not a happy life - but it is
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unfortunately very common.
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