I honestly don't know if I "assume a pose" or act differently around different groups of people. It's really hard to tell since I'm not even sure if I'm entirely true to myself. I generally act the same around everyone I know though. I don't really have a reason to try to be something I'm not, and I have no intentions to. My family doesn't pressure me to be something I don't want to be. Neither do my friends. I've never changed myself for anyone.

I guess at times, though, I do act differently around some people. It could be because I'm not too fond of them, and I'm shy or maybe I just don't really care for them. It really all just depends. At times I'll get these vibes from people and that'll cause me to act maybe more awkward and uneasy. I'll worry that they know something about me I don't want them to. Or that they're judging me all wrong. I read people's emotions and facial expressions too well, to the point that I can almost know exactly what they're thinking. And I guess in a way, I feel forced to act a certain way around them. It might just be intimidation but I still feel obligated to dim myself down. In that sense I'm not being who I truly am.

I feel like on a rare occasion my friends see who I truly am. Either because of the way I might have laughed or because of something childish I might have said. I feel like I'm way too complex though, and that it would be very hard to actually see who and what I am. Especially since I don't even know. And it's very hard to show your true self when you don't know what your true self is like. I try to show my true self to a few people, but to be realistic,I don't think anyone really knows themselves as well as they would like to think.

There is a quote by Gandhi that says "the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." I think this is very important to think about because most people are too stubborn, including myself, to think that it's possible that someone else can reveal who you really are.