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	<title>Comments on: On Being Yourself</title>
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	<description>One Red Hot Country Mama!</description>
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		<title>By: Rumer</title>
		<link>http://ch.aoti.ca/2008/05/on-being-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-5</link>
		<dc:creator>Rumer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with your last paragraph, and I couldn&#039;t help but notice that last choice of word- &quot;interesting&quot;. Not good, not bad, just interesting, which I have to admit is probably the truest prediction of what would happen if we all were truly ourselves.

It would be interesting to observe what would happen, what relationships would be created and/or destroyed, by people being themselves. Let&#039;s face it,we all have family and friends who we like, and yet there are aspects that make them uniquely them that we don&#039;t care for. So do we love them despite this friction of our respective individuality, or do we let what we perceive as their flaws dive a wedge into the relationship? Will that then point us towards people who are just like us, and let the rest be damned? Like does attract like, after all. Trying to change them would hardly be a solution, as that would totally defeat the whole idea of someone being themselves, yet surely some would try.

So yes, the world would be an interesting place if we were all our true selves, but would it be better?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with your last paragraph, and I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that last choice of word- &#8220;interesting&#8221;. Not good, not bad, just interesting, which I have to admit is probably the truest prediction of what would happen if we all were truly ourselves.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to observe what would happen, what relationships would be created and/or destroyed, by people being themselves. Let&#8217;s face it,we all have family and friends who we like, and yet there are aspects that make them uniquely them that we don&#8217;t care for. So do we love them despite this friction of our respective individuality, or do we let what we perceive as their flaws dive a wedge into the relationship? Will that then point us towards people who are just like us, and let the rest be damned? Like does attract like, after all. Trying to change them would hardly be a solution, as that would totally defeat the whole idea of someone being themselves, yet surely some would try.</p>
<p>So yes, the world would be an interesting place if we were all our true selves, but would it be better?</p>
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		<title>By: Stefanie</title>
		<link>http://ch.aoti.ca/2008/05/on-being-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-6</link>
		<dc:creator>Stefanie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 17:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When it comes to certain topics - that is how I roll baby!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to certain topics &#8211; that is how I roll baby!</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy Jacobs</title>
		<link>http://ch.aoti.ca/2008/05/on-being-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-7</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Jacobs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 02:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow. This is a bit heavy!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. This is a bit heavy!</p>
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