SycamoreCircle Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 Do you feel that you've ever known or been involved with someone who is pretending to be something they're not, perpetually? Like a Blanche DuBois from Streetcar Named Desire? And I don't mean that it is a phase. I mean their personality is a commitment to the constant retooling of their own self-perception. If so, is it possible in some ways their obdurate fantasies helpfully serve them? Like, professionally? Maybe I decide that despite the fact I don't have a background in business, by selling myself as someone who does I work my way into say...a financial firm. Do such things happen? If I walk like a duck and talk like a duck, do I eventually become a duck? 1
alsudduth Posted May 19, 2015 Posted May 19, 2015 I've never been in a relationship like that, but I've come across some people like that.... I find that Reality "Stars" tend to have these characteristics.
Timshel Posted May 19, 2015 Posted May 19, 2015 Or like Don Draper from Mad Men. A self-fulfilling prophecy? "Build it and they will come?" I think it's possible to invent yourself. The best liars are so because they believe their own fairy tales. I suppose there are harmless ways to propel your dreams, 'never say never.' On the other hand if the goal is deception in order to manipulate and take advantage of others that's generally sociopathic and completely not cool.
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