PERSONAL PERSONALITIES (PDF-1719)

I have had some fun of late poking at our concept of a self, pointing out that it is a collection of attachments and even those are ever changing. And although the Self is, as I put it, a case of “permanent impermanence,” this does not mean that our self is useless or not interesting. It is useful and can even be fascinating; this is perhaps best seen in the different types of persons around us, as in: our personalities. We each build our personality by the choices we make and the things we like and only time will tell if we have made the right choices or not. Most of us would like to have an attractive or interesting personality and the endless stream of popular magazines is testimony to the fact that imitating what is considered “cool” is the way many personalities are put together these days. We copy, big time. Monkey see, monkey do.