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I'm just going to make this entry, and, then, I pack the computer up and head to Arkansas.

Don't ask me why, but I was thinking tonight about façades and the concept of being a different person around different people. Once, a while ago, someone once told me that they thought that I was a different person while in their company. That statement made me a tad upset. For one, I didn't really feel that I was that was an accurate statement about me. I personally didn't feel that I put a façade up for different people. Then, I started to think about why people might think that. Then, I realised that there might be a bit of truth to that. Obviously, all people act differently depending on their surroundings. I feel that it's a good thing too. After all, only an idiot would act the same way at a funeral as they would act at a baseball game. So, naturally, we probably do act differently around different people.¹

Still, despite the way that I might act differently, does that mean that we're different people? I don't really know the answer to that. I, on one hand, feel that I am the same person despite the setting or environment that I'm in. On the other hand, I see other people who, it seems, at their core are different in different environments. While in one setting, they might be a principled, pious and upstanding citizen where, in another, they're an immoral, vile creature.

What do you think?

1. Still, the context in which the accuser told me that I was acting differently was that I was sinisterly doing it on purpose. I do not.