Split Personality

Having a "split personality" is not abnormal. While it is deemed a disease of the mind, it's actually dirt common. Almost everyone has a latent talent for being more than one person. We do it regularly although not as well as those who do have a true personality split illness. We are one person at work, another in a social setting, yet another in our home life and so on. We flow from one personality type to another easily and no one calls us sick. Your lover appears and you are soft and romantic and loveable. At work, you are efficient and cooperative and industrious. Amongst your close friends, you are gregarious, share your experiences and become one with the group. At home alone, you relax and flop around just being the "real" you. Who is the real you? Now that's a question devoutly to be considered. If you try to identify who the real you is, you can bog down with who you want to be and who you truly are. Most of the time, the two don't get along very well. Most of us want to be something more than what we are and thus ought to make plans or strategies or resolutions to work toward that goal. But do we know what we want to be, not the dreams of those aspirations but the ones that are reachable. Rather than a definite scheme, most of us take it one bit at a time, thinking how we could have done this or that in a better way or been a better friend or a more generous member of society even if all it means is to tidy the sock drawer or take your mom to coffee once in awhile. How do you find the real you? Is it that average stranger looking back at you in the mirror? Is it that person who sees a cloud of breath in the winter and feels prickly heat in the summer? Is it the one who hates beans and loves carrots? Maybe it's the person who buys lottery tickets and dreams of what to do with millions? Or it could be the sad soul who finds a grey hair or a wrinkle or a wart? Then again, maybe it's just you, the comfy, warm, cosy, you, composite of all of the things you are and will always be, never having to become anything other than good old you. Just you the personality splitter - as required.