Your 'self' that is hardly yours - Part 1

Bent to be taught and taught to be bent

Duration 28m 35s

From my blog entry englishtamil.blogspot.com/ on a related topic --Quote-- If we are to shy away from the idea of iter-caste marriages just because of these so called differences, consider this: Could there possibly be a difference more serious than the one that exists between men and women? Like the famous saying "Men are from Mars and women are from Venus", differences exist in you as a member of a gender. Going by that idea men and women shouldn't even be marrying each other, but we do, don't we?

The idea of one's self is very murky and sometimes void. Self is nothing but a construction of an individual's perceptions built on reflecting his/her notions and ideas on various people and places under different circumstances. And this construction need not always be "right" or "wrong" and personally I don't have a strong attachment to such a self that is a result of several encounters whose gravity and morality that I'm not always sure of. This construction goes on in a continuum, for you cannot say "Now that I'm 20, I have a self and I won't let anything change it no matter what". --Unquote--