Can you live without identity
Not identifying yourself with: race, country, faith, belief, family, status,
title, positions, possesions and all the past memories of yourself.
We are not afraid to die physically but we are afraid to lose all our identificaltions and psychological acquisitions,
I think this is the core of our fear.
Can you live without all these?
If you can then you are truly an intelligent human being with true love in your heart.
If you cannot, why?
2006-10-29 08:14:07 · 9 answers · asked by ol's one 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You are covering two categories here. Fear is really a primal reaction, instinctual sense for survival. Best to keep that. Thing is to have it and not be ruled by it.
To lose all our identifications and psychological acquisitions is to find the part of you that is not conditioned by your environment, ie your upbringing by parents, teachers and society at large. Psychological traits are roles we play in order to interact within a society.
And yes you can live without all these but you may be a bit lonely - or a zen monk or a meditator. To lose all the identifications and psychological acquisitions is a magnificent state - free of every piece of emotional chaos that we get embroiled in.
There is usually alot of fear unravelling these behavioural traits, they are so ingrained in us, to lose them is to feel like you have nothing familiar to rest on, no comfortable reference point. Then you find the reference points you choose to have. So instead of you having to play a part in this human game you have been conditioned to, you start to choose yourself what characters you want to use to get along in life.
Status, title, family identification are all constructed by the conditionings of your environments. Being aware of it is and not being embroiled and controlled by that conditioning is one of the most wonderful experiences - and I'm still having it.
Having to face the emotions that were created by being conditioned - now that's where fear comes in. Fear of not living up to someones expectations, fear that you are not doing enough to earn someone elses love - cause that person expects you to act a certain way in order for them to love you; doing what is acceptable to society - even if what society expects is not of your choosing.
Taking the plunge to step outside of this conditioning is a brave choice cause you feel you will alienate yourself. But it's a small price to pay to love yourself instead of having to earn it from everyone else.
2006-10-29 08:47:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People like to feel special, or to feel part of a group. Not everyone is able to live with only the feeling that they are part of the human race. They soon get lonely.
As for living without fear. That tends to be a luxury for young people who have not yet found themselves in the position of not having money to buy food for themselves and their family that day, have not experienced the hunger from missing a couple of days of food and the crying of children who desperately want something to eat that day and will not get it.
As people get older they tend to have experiences that teach them that the world may not be as safe and dependable as they had previously thought.
Hunger, illness, deprivation, robbery. These are the real life.
2006-10-29 08:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most persons of the world today who are not insane or psychotic truly could NOT say that they would be able to live without identification and psychological acquisitions. Even the Dalai Lama whom I respect greatly could not live without simply BEING. The aspect of being is the aspect of being oneself. Every person is an individual. Even in the most oppressive of societies, an individual still will retain his or her core of being behind closed doors. Even in the Orwellian realm of "1984", the characters retained some semblance of individuality.
I cannot live without my identification as ME or even my very humble psychological acquisitions. I would cease to exist. My hope is that even the afterlife will be a realm that consists of life forms being able to keep some form of individuality.
2006-10-29 08:37:13 · answer #3 · answered by bjorktwin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't imagine why I wouldn't want to identify myself with my family.
I don't think I"d be much of a mother if I acted in ways that jeopardized my children. And, it doesn't seem like intelligence or true love to not fear losing my children, as a parents' worry about their children is a large part of keeping kids safe.
I think fear is a natural emotion designed to give us pause. It is also the emotion that arises for many when we try something new. Maybe that's because we don't want to lose our image of ourself by failing, but I think fear is just biological.
The important thing, then, to me, is courage - to fear, and to act anyway.
2006-10-29 08:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
email me when you have found someone that truly is not afraid of anything (hahaha)
Seriously, if there is a person out there that is not afraid of anything. Not adhering to society, and doesn't carwe that much but doesn't have a grossly large ego, they are possibly one of the best examples of how people should act. They would be influencingf beyod anyone's wldest beliefs. They would have such great insight and such great character, and people would look up to them. (think of Ghandi x10).
It would be possible to live without fear, but then, like I said before, you would really have to strive not to be arrogant in any way, but to also strive to be humble.
I would not say that this person has true love in their heart, but they have generlized love foer everyone.
if you were to find this person, they are most lkey giong to have belief in som diety, they would live in amongst a large number of people, they are not going to have too many friends, they are giong to be quite reserved, they will go out and talk to people, they will be very kind if you met them, they are most likely to have done many acts of service, most of them menial that go unnoticed. They are overall going to be almost the perfect role model.
2006-10-29 08:28:39 · answer #5 · answered by Kremer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree but you have to be able to not be influenced by others people fear and identities, how can you relate to them, they start putting on you labels in any case, if you want it or not. I have been there, you might go under test as well.
2006-10-29 08:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because this is how the most of the people live. It is like going to a Halloween party with no custom...
2006-10-29 08:51:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I fear to lose my boy friend...
I do not want to live alone again...
That's all what I fear. But I think that's enough....
2006-10-29 08:46:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how identity is linked to fear?
2006-10-29 08:43:31 · answer #9 · answered by the Bruja is back 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋