Look in the mirror and you see yourself. Do you think that people see you in the same way? Still standing in front of the mirror, do this: talk, move your hands, observe your facial expressions and body language. Do you think people see you exactly in the same way?
I have often wondered about how others actually "see" each of us, how we appear to them and how they interpret our way of presenting ourselves. "No big deal", you may say. "There is only one way to be", you may add. Well, according to Italian dramatist and philosopher Luigi Pirandello (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1934) the "truth" is that each of us is seen in a different way by whoever is dealing with us. Therefore, according to him, there is no one-single-truth about who we actually are. "One, no-one, one hundred thousand" is the intriguing title of a famous novel of his. Puzzling idea, isn't it?
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