How come you are the way you are, why do you like & dislike the things you do, how come you feel the way you do about things?
2007-01-21 22:51:39 · 30 answers · asked by Knobby Knobville 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nature, nurture & astrology are no excuses. What happened to choice?
2007-01-21 23:05:41 · update #1
GAgirl, thanks for keeping it Real.
Claudine Sophia is on fire, wicked.
2007-01-21 23:09:48 · update #2
You need more Love, Amp. PEACE
2007-01-22 09:10:12 · update #3
I am that I am one with all
2007-01-22 09:29:24 · update #4
I am just a person simply trying just to be myself, like many other good people in the world. Why then do you ask this? As this is way too much for me in the way of questioning, leading to too little for the trust I need to have in my being; there is also too little between you and me for me to open up to you so intimately. Would you, for example, like someone simply jumping out of nowhere and trying to probe inner recesses of your heart and mind?
Nevertheless, what is the matter with me point to the fact what does it means to be myself? To be myself simply means the world to me, the world that I am essentially a part of and by this I do not mean just the environment I live in, or the things and people I know, but all things included, the things I know, and also things I don’t. As what I know is to form my opinions and views and here I can see, but where I do not see I know with the light of faith and trust - all the world is as much a part of me as I am part of it, all that exists, exists as I do myself. I am the only proof, for myself that this world exists at all. And if I can like myself, I can also like all that is there in existence.
The world has to be what it is for me to be myself; and even if something as little as a tiny atom at the other side of the universe were missing, I would not have been me, just the way this universe would not have been what it is now with that indispensable atoms being a part of it. This is how minutely I feel when it comes to being of my soul and lonely heart amidst this mega structural and multidimensional universe.
I believe that I am indispensable in being, just like anything else in this universe; all things have to exist in order for this world to be what it is; and I believe without me, nothing in the world would have been what anything is - just like this room would not have been what it is with me in it. This is what I am sure about but what I am constantly unsure about is the factual question: am I right in being the way I am? And this is where, I think, your question resides.
2007-01-22 00:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by Shahid 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dad ran away when i was 2. My mother was very loving when I was young, but got nastier as I got older. I struggled against how I was meant to talk, look, act and feel as a black male and how I actually felt inside. Got bullied at school for a few months. Was an ugly duckling and blossomed when I left school. I partied hard from the age of 17 to 27......yes that pretty much shaped the person I am today. Great question by the way.
2007-01-22 07:12:01 · answer #2 · answered by mickeyleon123 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that's the question of the day, isn't it? What's the matter with me? My heart is broken. Why? Part nature, part nurture, part choice, partly because life is cruel & arbitary & random & it just hurts sometimes. Partly because I choose to wallow because it's easier to curl into a ball & cry than to get up & try to move on. Partly because my parents were a mess & weren't good role models for dealing with adversity. Partly because my life experience has made me melancholy and because I'm an artist & pain is part of who I am...
What's the matter with me? I am the matter with me. I suppose I really have no one to blame but myself. I choose how to respond to life to some degree. Others have survived worse tragedies & kept their chins up I suppose. I choose to grieve.
2007-01-22 08:12:15 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I realised some time back( after a lot of reading and heart-searching!) that if I wasn't happy 'here and now', then having a castle to live in or a million pounds in the bank wasn't likely to make me any happier.
In other words, I saw that 'being happy' was down to me. Since then I have found that lots of little things make me happy. A sunny day, a decent coffee, time with friends or with my family.
So I changed jobs to one I feel gives me a purpose and with hours to give me more time off in the day so I can see my daughter and wife after school.
I don't worry too much about money since I am satisfied (mostly) with what I have. And if I feel disgruntled, then it's down to me (again) to do something about it isn't it?
Thank you for asking!
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2007-01-22 08:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by Nobody 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is a very simple answer to all of this, except our society somehow does not want to accept it. There is tons of books written to prove it and disprove it, so i don’t want to make a case for it here. You can check it out on your own time. But If you are just a little open minded (being little bit open minded sound funny. you are or you are not), think how the concept of reincarnation could explain it all.
Just wonder why are you asking it if you already know?
2007-01-22 07:48:56 · answer #5 · answered by j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was design by the maker like this.
I feel what I feel because of circumstances around me
I like the things I do because I enjoy doing them and it helps other people to learn from me.
I dislike hurting other people's feeling but can not be avoided because the truth hurts. They don't want to hear the truth.
2007-01-22 08:58:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, now I am ok. Things are going great because I have come to terms with certain things in my life. I now know the difference between what I want and what I do not like. I have learned to trust myself and develop my wits. I have learned not to take advantage of myself. I feel good, because it's all good!
Love
Yes my brotha! It's like that ")
2007-01-22 07:03:02 · answer #7 · answered by claudine sophia 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Partly nature, partly nurture! A combined effect of genes(inherited) and circumstances (conditioning, or, influence of the people and society around you, as you grow up!)!
2007-01-22 06:56:39 · answer #8 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of what's wrong with me is circumstances. Things that have happened in my life that were beyond my control. At this point in my life, I don't recognize the person I've become, and most of the time, I do not like who I have become.
2007-01-22 06:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by GAgirl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part nature, part nurture, part experience. Doesn't make it right or wrong, just my own view on the world thats all.
2007-01-22 06:55:33 · answer #10 · answered by dwayne dibbley´s cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋