Sharing Opinions and Viewpoint - Does it mirror our personality?
By honeylore23
@honeylore23 (1081)
United States
November 1, 2008 2:39am CST
Sharing Opinions and Viewpoint - Does it mirror our personality?
I am an avid reader of mylot discussions. I used to read every discussion that caught my interests, even those discussions I have nothing to contribute/share of. I notice each of us do answer in a unique way. Some response fascinated us, shocked us, made us feel sad, made us feel hatred, made us feel hatred. And that made me wonder, are we really what we used to say, does that opinions advices really tell we do the same thing. Does everything we say, mirror our personality.
It got me into thinking that if sometimes we don't understand ourselves and that if sometimes we don't want what we are, then it could be that at times we are just pretending to be somebody. And that we are trying to make other people be what we want to become.
What do you think?
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3 responses
@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
2 Mar 09
Hello honeylore23! I don't know about others here, but for me, I just say who I am. I don't want to pretend to be somebody here because I know that if one of my friend will accidentally type my name, they will see my activities here and will say "she's lier" I am using my real name here so if I will lie it will affect my personality in real life.
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But I am a quiet person. I rarely talk especially to those person I don't know. That's why I like it here because I was able to express myself and I was able to meet different kind of people from different country which I am really very interested to know.[/i]
@honeylore23 (1081)
• United States
13 Nov 09
Hello Aisa,
Its quite a time I've been away in mylot and I can see the proof that you enjoy mylot. I am older than you are here in mylot but look at the number of your post, it is 4 times the number of post I have.
Like you, I am also a quiet person. I want to be all by myself most of the time. But if people do the first move and communicate me, I got very talkative. I have to remind myself to shut up. hehehe
Well with regards to your response, I think when it comes to sharing our viewpoint and opinions on a certain thing, there is no lies, if there is, we can only know that. But others cannot tell or maybe tell you are a liar just because you say things different from the way they used to know you.
As I have said in my first quote, the only thing that is stable is constant change that may happen even in just a single blink.
Happy mylotting!
@honeylore23 (1081)
• United States
28 Feb 09
Hello Stepcjh,
Well I also see some responses which are somewhat shocking, you don't expect to be responded and you don't believe happening, although I still think it is possible, each one of us has unique experiences and sometimes we do respond base on our experience and base on the impact of the discussion on you which is very unique to each one of us so naturally each one of us could have a different insight on a certain discussions.
happy mylotting!
@tulipstrader (1467)
• India
1 Nov 08
mylot is a wonderful place to share our opinions and views. sometiems discussions get heated up and get into serious arguments. i have seen a couple of discussions where i too participated being delted completely as it went out of way. there are topics which the initiator sometimes just want an honest answer, but end up with respondents behaving negatively. that is bad. just because it hurt your feelings, does not mean you have to behave rudely or negatively. here each one is just expressing his or her views, opinions and experiences. many times the questions are very uncomfortable in nature to many. that does not mean it was meant to hurt anyone. many reply without reading the question fully and answer with irrelevant facts and reasons. there are lots of mylotters here who are in this category. if someone doesnot agree, leave it at that or give a polite reply and say you do not want to go any further. if you want further discussions, then one should come with hard facts. you will find many such instances here.
Views and opinions do relfect some part of the personality. after all we are what we do. there is no denying of this fact. we just express ourselves through many channels and expressing our views and opinions is just one of those few.
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@honeylore23 (1081)
• United States
28 Feb 09
Hello tulipstrader,
Thanks for a very wonderful response. Well I also think it partly mirror our personality but don't totally tell that a person is like this and like that because that is what he/she said. For one thing, we people, like other things, are constantly changing, from time to time as days go by and as we experienced many different things, that taught us lessons. Another thing, responses could not be direct from our opinion, but from what be believe on what other people say. I mean we people could be pretentious at times, trying to pretend to be somebody we are not. And on the other hand, I also think that some responders do reply based on what they think is an appropriate and an ideal response, not basing on what really their opinion is.
Happy mylotting!
