is there a STRANGER WITHIN us all?

Question

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Does it stay a stranger or it becomes our own friend in time?

Answer 1

Truly, there's a 'stranger' living inside each one of us;..whose thoughts sometimes contradict our intended actions;..whose way of reasons at times fascinates us as it sounds different from our usual own;..and whose depth we couldn't fathom. This is when our close friends ask: "Is that really you talking?"...or "Do I know you at all?"
Do we really know our absolute selves. Do we have control of every move we'd like to make, every emotion, every dream? Isn't it there a shapeless thing we couldn't quite manipulate like it's something we're not quite familiar of?... That's the very 'stranger' that dwells within us.

Answer 2

Yes there is a stranger in all of us, sometimes it becomes our friend and then there are other times when stays as a stranger. things that we do not like to admit to ourselves is a form of bing a stranger to ourselves and sometimes during intense moments we react differently then what we thought we would so again this is a stranger. Then there is the stranger of who we are to become because we are forever changing, gaining new knowledges and growing., with each we change a little at a time, a stranger but it is when we have changed to anew and improved person than we have become our own friend over a period of time and then there are extreme situation s that will either bring out the best or the worst in a person like a victim of abuse who suddenly decides that they have had enough and stops letting themselves be abused by standing up for themselves again a person becomes their own friend. So I guess the answer is yes to both it could go either way or a combination of both. at a moment it is either or over a long period of time it is a combination of both. I'm sure if anyone looks back at their whole life they will find that their has been a stranger in themselves and that they have been a good friend to themselves and sometimes a bad friend to themselves.

Answer 3

I think there is a stranger within us, when we, as I tell my Kids, get up from the wrong side of the Bed, I sometimes do not want my Kids to talk to me, for at least an hour, or as they say get the cobwebs, out of my eyes, to function, with my daily chores of the day. After some minutes that Stranger becomes my friend, and I could enjoy being Alive again.

Answer 4

I believe there is a Stranger Within us all because we all turn into different people in front of different people we know: family, friends, co-workers, associates, etc. There is a Stranger Within us to one's self. I mean, there is someone who we want to be or to become. We want to create someone within us who is the reflection of who we are not or who we want to become to make ourselves better. When a person is determined to work on themselves with the time provided to them, the stranger becomes a friend because they've become half of the person until they can complete the process of fully turning themselves into that friend. However, it stays a stranger when we look on at it but never allows it to develop further than what we can see from afar.

Answer 5

Yes!. The answer is our " TALENT" in ourselves. It's the stranger!. We may not know who was the stranger within us when we were born, even when we grow up we may or may not know. But sometime the stranger becomes our own friend, where we handle it with care and we raise the spirits of our friend!:)

Have a nice day!:)

Answer 6

This is a bit difficult, (as your questions often are, you scamp!) but I'm going to try to "feel" it out. How could there be anything WITHIN us that is a stranger? A part of us that hasn't yet been experienced, perhaps. But how could a part of us truly be a stranger to ourselves? We may meet along the path & think, hmm, the face is familiar, & yet, do I know you well? I discovered part of me that way; the first time I desperately needed wisdom & courage. & there it was. I'd never have dreamed the "stranger" had always been a part of me. Was it? Did it "morph" out of its hiding only when I needed it?
I related to part of the concept of AthenGenesis, "...we are strangers to it..." & also jach v, "Do we really know our absolute selves." There are some threads that don't connect, yet I don't think they're so dissimiliar.
Whatever one thinks of the stranger within, I believe we know each other at some level, & in time recognize "each others" faces.

Answer 7

The simple answer yes. But I think that this part of us that we are a stranger to, we are strangers to it, because we are afraid of it. The Stranger - that's Albert Camus book. Have you read it.
It basically is about the stranger that resides in us. The main character . . . well . . . he commits murder, something he never thought he would do. . .
Can the Stranger become our friend over time. . . . I'm not sure. Maybe more like an aquaintence.

Answer 8

I think I'm personally closest to the "strangers" answer myself.

There's not just one shadow, but at least a few in each of us. Some of these shadows can be our friend, and in one particular case, one has become so "close" to me that the boundaries are as blurred as they've ever been--I haven't been this close to *this one* shadow since my own childhood.

But then there are other shadows where you *know* they have to stay under lock and key. Mainly, the shadows that are hostile, violent, mean in ways that are unfair and make no sense. I admit I did have to struggle with *that* shadow too myself, most of last night, into today....basically, yesterday there was an incident on the bus, where a couple of teenaged guys insulted me right to my face. And....while I kept my composure right there in the situation, I did have to face down the urge to *start beating people down* for a lot of last night, into this morning.

It can make for some sleepless nights. -_- Particularly if you *want* to be a good, decent human being and *not* some abusive freakshow instead.

And then of course, like another answerer mentioned, there are those "WTF??" shadows where you get in a weird mood or thought process and....things happen. Odd things. Things that most reasonable folks would say was "impossible". But I'm keeping a lid on that too....I already have a mood disorder or three to deal with, *last thing* I need is for people to start considering me openly psychotic and out of control. No thank you.

So yeah. Multiple shadows, some of them you can befriend, others you can tame....but a few need to be locked up in the Heavy Cage, if you know what I mean.

Thanks for your time....and it is good to see you still around Enki. Thank you for staying, and I hope this isn't hurting you too awful much. ^_^

Answer 9

Oh... there is absolutely a stranger in us all. It is the part of us we are unwilling to admit about ourselves. Our secret desires and pleasures, the things we hate and fear about ourselves, the things that happened to us that we'd rather forget. The term for this stranger in psychology is "the shadow."

Does it stay a stranger? Not necessarily. You can "befriend" it if you so desire. However, its not really a pleasant or friendly process. I prefer the term "reintegrate" the shadow (or stranger). There is a reason that it is felt like a "stranger." Its stuff that we don't want to associate with or know about ourselves.

Answer 10

Yes. It will remain a stranger until some external stimuli causes you to react in a way you didnt know existed within you. An unknown strength or fear, a weakness or rage to action. An unknown is a stranger even if it is not neccessarily a person.