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For context: My friends (INFJ and ISFP) and I were playing a game when this choice came up and voted on different answers. They both chose to forget themselves while I chose to forget everyone else around me. The INFJ's reasoning was that people shape who you are and friends can help you learn who you once were.
I don't exactly agree with that though, as friends can't know everything about oneself and it's quite a burdensome task to leave to others. Self identity is what I make it to be. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to learn who I am from everyone except myself.
Not only that, but people can be fickle and I would imagine most won't be comfortable with helping people going through such personal affairs. It also opens you up to vulnerabilites - if someone was to manipulate and lie to me by making me believe I did xyz I might actually believe it to a point of extreme inner turmoil. Ultimately, at the end of the day your the one stuck with yourself.
I'm super curious as to what you guys might think!
For context: My friends (INFJ and ISFP) and I were playing a game when this choice came up and voted on different answers. They both chose to forget themselves while I chose to forget everyone else around me. The INFJ's reasoning was that people shape who you are and friends can help you learn who you once were.
I don't exactly agree with that though, as friends can't know everything about oneself and it's quite a burdensome task to leave to others. Self identity is what I make it to be. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to learn who I am from everyone except myself.
Not only that, but people can be fickle and I would imagine most won't be comfortable with helping people going through such personal affairs. It also opens you up to vulnerabilites - if someone was to manipulate and lie to me by making me believe I did xyz I might actually believe it to a point of extreme inner turmoil. Ultimately, at the end of the day your the one stuck with yourself.
I'm super curious as to what you guys might think!