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I'd argue there is no "true self" at all — just different views into your personality. Facebook, perhaps, is not a healthy such view.


If all the world's a stage then we are only ever acting, never being.


Ooh, I like that. I'm going to adopt it, but I'll use "then we're only actors, not beings". Feels stronger that way.


:) go for it, I like that too.


I have a hard time distinguishing someone's behaviour from their innate personality. Perhaps forgiveness is the key.





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