Rock the Word

The young lady looks like she could be a singer but looks are devious. She works for a rock group probably as a promoter but her personal life is somewhere else. She keeps Jesus on her cellphone and gets questions about whether it is a joke or something. She says that she it is serious. Her private life is one thing an her personal life something else. Both halves life happily together, apparently. Life goes on while in my opinion she is looking  for some meaning to life.

According to some if she were to be looking for some meaning than she would not be just believing. There is a wide circle of people who will say if you believe, there is no need for proof. If there is no need for proof, then there is no need for any scientific or philosophical reasoning . That would include the need to find the reason for ones existence. Cynics out there will say what is the point to continue looking for a reason when they are well aware that they will never find a satisfactory reason in their lifetimes. And do those people wanting to give up on the hunt just have to be cynics? That is also a question to be answered.

There was young man I met in Rome who would be running after ladies on a regular basis. He could never get enough he would say. Then he turned to orthodox Judaism and today who knows whether he has kept to the change or went back to his old self. I think he has gone on in life, feeling dissatisfied with his former self. He said he felt a calming when he got into the religious fold.  It would appear that his personality might have been less balanced than the woman’s but who is to say that one cannot change ones habits over night.

There must be many people out there who have two sides to themselves. Very few people, it is said, have just a single character. The ability to embrace more than one character trait is not to be confused with dualities and split personalities. Seeing more than one side to a person’s character then dies not mean the person has a dual personality. Multiple personality types are out there, where a person has a limited sense of his other self or no sense at all  but here we are talking about people who are comfortable with different aspects of their personality because they believe they have to function in the real world and they need to have time for themselves. It is natural for people to exhibit different sides of their personality especially when under stress and asked to perform under extreme circumstances. This does not define the person as being permanently outside himself or acting as another person which are attributes with a split personality or other mental illnesses. In the above case the person could very well be happy to have a private and public image as do so many other religious people needing to get through their day to day existence.