02/22/20 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

As everyday goes by us as individuals take on the thought of how other perceive us and that consumes majority of our day . We take so much importance of how others will look at us or how others will think that is why Shakespeare quote is so important and relevant because we enter a day but we are all players in the grand scheme of things we have the moments that sometimes a part of our self will come out and then it will exit and another will come into play. This is where it is mixed with how exactly we have different selves depending on what exactly the situation is. We have the conflict of trying to achieve this sort of ideal expression of ourselves because we don’t go off our true self on how we want to express but rather follow what we think others want to see in us. For example if something happens and everyone cries we assume that we need to cry because if we don’t cry people will look at us as if we are weird because we are not crying while everyone else is but in reality this is us trying to play the role that we feel in that point of time is necessary this is similar to a veneer of consensus because the act of crying would be deemed acceptable. We rely on the appearance that we present to base majority of our paths and we want to be accepted the way that we put forth so we spend so much time trying to do that we lose majority of our true self identity too and we lose the whole idea of a self identity.