Multi-faces

How many different sides does a person actually have? How many do I own? What we thought ourselves as is never the same as what other people thought we were. It is rather subjective.

I know what kind of person I am and how I am going to react to various situations. But does that means that I know myself well? My friends may think that I am otherwise. So does it means that they don't know me well? I guess nobody can be certain enough to say that he or she knows a person very well. I couldn't. People do change, and that's life all about. Changing and becoming more and more like who we are meant to be.

We could be lovers, friends or even our family. But sometimes, what they say to us or do to us could make us feel like we are strangers. We could be married for many years and still be strangers to each other in many ways.

What is my favourite colour? My favourite food, or music, or movie? I could tell you today and you could easily forget it tomorrow. Or you may have it engraved it forever in your heart and yet I may have forgotten even saying it. People change, we are forgetful, we don't listen with our heart. We are after all imperfect. We are after all human. Who can fault me for the things I do when they themselves are many times guilty of the crime they committed?

You and me, we, are self centred beings. We like to talk and seldom listen. Sometimes we even speak for the sake to make noises. How uncomfortable silent can be at times. We ask questions no intending to listen. Maybe for the sake of trying to look interested in someone elses life?

I don't know. And I am not in the position to judge.

Human interaction is really a complex thing. Why do some people just click with some and not others? Why when 2 strangers' eyes met for the very first time, there is an connection we feel? Why do love at first sight exist? And what exactly is 'chemistry'? No one can really put a word to that. It is just something we feel. Right?

Perhaps when we truely open up our inner self to others, the more we trust them, love them and yet at the same time feel vulnerable to them, but still continue to trust. That could be how when people are thrown together in a crisis, they bond quickier and stronger. That's when everything is at stake and they have nothing more to lose except themselves. And maybe that's when we understand ourselves and others more. To see the multi-faces of them (mind u, i don't mind hypocrites). It can only be done when we step out of our comfort zone and thrust ourself into the unknown.