Wonders

Friday the 13th.

There are two possible ways to understanding why you, being the renowned gentleman or lady, could have suddenly lost your cool at a snide remark made by a fool, or how you might think yourself as a person with integrity, but people have always slighted your ability to resist temptations. The two approaches to gaining a rather loose grasp on human behaviour are namely personality psychology and self-psychology.

Personality
- looks at what one is actually like
- many interesting theories on this, like the Fruedian psychoanalysis, and other relative less famous ones like neoanalytic, trait, cognitiive, existential and social-behaviouristic approaches( not yet read up on them, just know them namesake)

Self
- looks at what one believes one is like
- consists of self-esteem( how one feels about oneself) and self-concept(what one thinks one is)

Both are concerned with 'me', as opposed to 'I'. 'I' is said to be studied by philosophers, by investigating how the objective world is observed by one, as probably summarised by the Cartesian "I think, therefore I am". 'Me' is the passive one, while 'I' carry out observations on 'me', as in 'I see me'. They are different but connected aspects of the self.

Not easy to sieve that out. I, and me. I feel happy, but I think me isn't. Whoa, that would be somewhat like split personalities if people were to think like that consciously. Yet, this age-old investigation has been ongoing, since the Grecian times, when Socrates and Plato theorized about morality and epistemology.

There are too many things to understand and learn and even wonder. Things like 'are we alone in this Universe?', 'what is the future of the universe', 'what is life- respiring organic cellular stuff, as we know it here, or probably sulphuric-based material in formless blobs?', and 'am I merely a consciousness dreaming and conjuring up all kinds of events, people, places, and not a walking, eating and sleepy human?'

Gives me the headache, but nevertheless highly intriguing.