Why are people so different on paper than in real life? Is it because we, as people, only put insignificant things on paper? I don’t think that’s necessarily true. The different facets of peoples’ personalities can be put on paper; it’s how we know what book characters are like. So how come book characters make sense and people don’t? The best explanation I can give myself is this: characters from a book have concrete personalities, in which all of their character traits are equally important and do not contradict each other. In real life, none of this is true. Just because you can write down the ingredients of a person doesn’t give you the recipe. We all decide on the value of the different parts of other’s personalities through a filter. We all decide how much weight to give each thing, but we could be wrong. In people we like we weigh things we like more than things we don’t like. This allows bad things, things we don’t want to see in our friends, slip though unnoticed. The same principle applies to people we don’t like. We can’t handle the processing of their wrong doings and the good things they do. It isn’t about what’s there, it’s about how we see it. Others see some parts of us, filter them, and create their own image of us. That’s why the same person is different, depending on who is talking about them.
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