Writer, culturologist and philosopher — about the forms of relations with their own different «I».
“There is nothing worse than being bored with yourself, because you can get rid of the company of other people, but not yourself. In this case, we were sent the aphorism of La Rochefoucauld * — a reminder that in each of us there are many others with whom you can spend time interestingly, marveling at your unpredictability. Each person is, in fact, a multi-person, whose various “Selves” are in a dispute, competition, cooperation relationship with each other.
Actually, the multiplicity of «I» has always been observed in acts of creativity. But in order to feel it, it is not necessary to be an actor or a poet, it is enough to listen to the conversation of different «I» in oneself. Each of us is the chairman of the assembly, at which various instances confer and make decisions. Democracy starts with how despotic or liberal I am towards my multiple selves. If I say “we” about myself, then I acknowledge my dependence on the various voices that sound in me and struggle to become my “I”. To be generous and attentive to them, to be «we» — this is what it means to be yourself.
* Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer, thinker of the 2011th century. Aphorism from the book «Maxims» (F. de La Rochefoucauld «Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales», Nabu Press, XNUMX).