092309: True Nature.

Today, someone posed the idea:

You'll never see a person's true character because it only comes out when no one else is looking.

and requested that I "think about it."

So I thought about it briefly and decided to write about it. See, if no one else is looking, how are we to judge that this "true character" is so different from what we do see? If no one else sees this other character, how can it be real, or, so different from what we do see? We don't know what we don't see.

It also brings out the "if a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" philosophy. But, that's beyond the point. The point is, whether or not we are lying or telling the truth, being rude or being polite, being mean or being nice, we are always our true nature. Our true nature is what we do and how we act at any given time, not our "general characteristics."

I'm wondering if this even makes any sense =/. I can be the nicest person in the world, but if I am in a bad mood, does that mean for the time I'm in a bad mood, I'm not of my true character? Or is being in a bad mood every now and again PART of my true nature?

This question can forever go unanswered. But who died and made me boss of defining things?