As said in an earlier post, each action of ours affects and is affected by other actions of ours. This gives raise to an interdependent framework of actions. Each action is also rooted firmly in a role. If we begin seeing our roles as separate, our actions will tend to be independent of the roles that we play. In such cases, we would be doing wrong most of the times becaues the framework is interdependent and we are seeing it as independent. The right thing to do, hence, would be to look at our actions as a continuous movement, proceeding from the root of one role to another.
We also tend to divide our time between roles. Time might exist chronologically, physically. It may not be possible to escape from this physical time. But time in the psychological sense, if we want to see action as a continuous movement, must also be seen as continuous. We cannot say that I will think about my family role only after six in the evening. That would be a ridiculous thing to do. But most of us do it and expect others to conform to our time perspective. This is again because of our fragmented view of the whole process of life. We see roles as separate and we tend to separate these roles in space and in time.
Therefore, at office, I am someone and then at home, which is spatially separate from office, I am someone different. There is a separate time for office and a separate time for home. We cannot escape time physically. We have to spend some time at office and some time at home, physically. We have to go to a separate place to work and earn money and a separate place is neede for carrying on our family affairs. This is inevitable. I am not saying that we should mix this up.
What I am saying is this. Our roles are psychologically different. We also tend to make them spatially and chronologically different. Once these differences come into being in our minds, then we get the tendency to look at our roles as separate. Once that separation comes into being, then we try and make our actions in each role as separate as possible. But we are one person. One Whole Person. Each action that we perform affects us directly and indirectly. All our roles are rooted in us as a human being.
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Hello Sir, Loved yo post. Yo so right in sayin,"All our roles are rooted in us as a human being". I am takin a freedom to comment here. We tend to divide our roles into time and space physically. Especially the modern life has made this much more inevitable so much so that hardly anyone think about wat yo ve thought Sir. Everyone is jus so Robotic and wired. Its inevitable as we see. The only thing tat can be done to make it undone is to be 'Mentally' present in those fragmented times we live in being in different roles habitatin in tat space. As i read somewhere... "Makes much more Sense to live in the Present Tense"
It was a good read Sir.... will be lookin out fo more of yo writings... yo kno... yo thoughts never fail to strike the chords :)
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