Hmm, well I don't believe in free will so when people encounter each other they are going to respond in a pre-programmed way. So, while you might be successfully suppressing things about yourself, you ARE expressing certain things about yourself and, as JonB suggested, it can be very off-putting to meet someone who is hiding things.
Here is an article I found useful in explaining a view on freewill: http://chronicle.com/article/Jerry-A-Coyne/131165/
I spent years trying to "not be myself" I found that it wasn't helpful because whenever I made a change that made some happy others were not happy. It really is best to just try to be the most genuine person that you can be.
Here is an article I found useful in explaining a view on freewill: http://chronicle.com/article/Jerry-A-Coyne/131165/
Quote:I construe free will the way I think most people do: At the moment when you have to decide among alternatives, you have free will if you could have chosen otherwise. To put it more technically, if you could rerun the tape of your life up to the moment you make a choice, with every aspect of the universe configured identically, free will means that your choice could have been different.
I spent years trying to "not be myself" I found that it wasn't helpful because whenever I made a change that made some happy others were not happy. It really is best to just try to be the most genuine person that you can be.
