Exploring Your Inner Personality
6th September 2021
Characters is an article meant to help you learn what human characters are, where we get them from, how we use them, and the importance of human characters in our lives. In this article, you will explore and learn more about one of the most despised and overlooked elements of our human nature. With that said, let’s face the points in this important article below.
WHAT ARE HUMAN CHARACTERS?
As I meant to use the word in this article, characters refer to the characteristics of a personal. We sometimes call them manners, behaviours and even lifestyle of a particular person. We are all unique, special and different human beings with very different characters or manners. Our human nature is what characterizes our mannerisms and ways of life. But, upbringing too has a role to play.
The way we think, speak, and act shows our true manners and characters. This is the reason why in films, movies, and fiction books, some individuals in the play are known as characters of a book, movie, or film. This means these are individuals with different views, beliefs, thoughts, words, and deeds. They are known by what they say and do. When familiar with them, you can predict what the protagonist or an antagonist is going to do next, just because you know their characters.
We may use different words when describing a person and his or her behaviours. But it also seems that there are patterns in humans also in the animals. Some animals behave like some humans in many similar ways. Some animals get annoyed faster than others, and so does some humans. Some animals take time before they get annoyed, and some humans are in the same characteristics. This means we can also learn a lot from animals if we only have time to observe them in their lives.
HOW DO WE GET OUR HUMAN CHARACTERS?
Now, there are two ways in which we humans get or acquire our human characteristics: nature and nurture. The way we think, speak, and act is all about our human nature. We are who we are because we are but human. The way we listen, understand, have knowledge, and be wise, all happens because we are human beings. In the same way, we are humans because of our characters and manners.
There are some things we are born with, and no matter how we wish or try to change them, we can’t manage because those are the things that make us unique from the rest of the crowd. Our minds and hearts are different. We have different natures just because we are not the same. Some of these features are the things we inherit from our parents. The old saying, “like father, like son,” is indeed true to some degree.
However, we can also learn to be someone we are not in the real sense. The good example of becoming someone new is in the religious notion and setting, where we pretend to be what that particular group of people want us to be, but we are not from the inside. Another example is cultural expectations. Many people divorce today merely because of the cultural expectations. A wife is expected to be and do this or that, in this or that manner or order. All these are pretence. They are not real. We are not who we pretend to be, but to some extent, people may know us as that. We may stay in that cocoon for long, but that doesn’t make us to be who we pretend to be. In one of these days, we will walk out of that world and be ourselves again.
Peer pressure is another example of becoming who we are not. With peers, you can do what you don’t want to do just because of human ego and pride. For example, I received the scarification marks on my forehead when I was about 15, just because my age mates were receiving them. My father tried to talk me out of it, but I couldn’t listen. For him, he thought I was too young. He thought I will make him ashamed by crying during the marking process. You can read more about the scarification in our community by reading this book here.
Yes, we can inherit our characters and mannerisms from either one or both of our parents, and this are called biological inheritance. We can inherit these characters from other biological parents and relatives such as great grandparents and even siblings. The environment also has a lot to add into our lives, individually, as well as collectively.
HOW DO WE USE OUR HUMAN CHARACTERS?
Well, we naturally use our characters no matter if they are good or bad. Knowing the fact that we are unique from others and special is the best way to make use of our characters. These characters can be categorized as good, bad, or even evil depending on what they are and who sees them. We also tent to see things our way.
We use both our natural and human-made characters to show or tell the world who we are. In most cases, we don’t even think about our manners and ways of life because they just happen. People know us by our characters and lifestyle. This makes us unique from the rest of the world. Our human characteristics are our core behaviours. We don’t decide when to use and when not to use them.
Even in movies, those actors much learn and pretend to be whom or whatever they are acting out in order for the movie to look real instead of a fictional thing. They must embody those characters described individuals in the script so that they resemble them almost accurately. In the same way, we demonstrate our inner beings, our inner personalities by active. Someone rightly said, “Don’t tell me what you believe in, but let’s stay for a while longer and I will tell you myself,” and this is true.
Are our everyday lives other forms of movies and films? Will we see all our deeds one day like we do on our screens? Will God judge us based on our thoughts, words, and actions? Will we be able to deny we haven’t done anything like this? I am just thinking. But our manners and characters can do us good or bad. That’s the essence of this article. Are we using our characters and abilities in the right way?
WHAT’S THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTERS?
Now, our characteristics matter a lot to us and to others around us, too. But the most important thing is to understand who we are by studying our own mannerisms and ways of life, and we can do this individually. This is part of self-discovery because when we understand who we are, naturally, we can try our best to improve both our self image, and our manners. But first, we have to accept ourselves individually, just as we are before we seek to improve or change something completely. Our characters affect us and other people we live with. In nature, some people talk a lot, and others don’t. This can be an issue when these distinct humans happen to live together. The talkative people will think those who don’t talk much are either dull or that they don’t like or want to understand them.
But understanding our differences can help us live in peace with all kinds of human beings. This means we first have to understand that every human being is not the same. Even our children are complete and different humans. They don’t really have to think and act exactly like us, their parents. This understanding makes us check our characters and manners.
But as usual, we are always who we are, naturally, not matter how we may try to act like other humans. God made us the way we are, and I think He smiles whenever He looks down on us. I can imagine Him stare at me and then smiles. I am His workmanship, the work of His own hands. I appreciate my difference with others, and at the same time, I also delight in others because the way they are shows me perfectly that God loves them, just as they are.
MY FINAL WORDS
Now, we have seen what human characters are, how we get them, what we use them for, and their importance in our lives. But as usual, head knowledge is not helpful in any way. This means we are always who we are, naturally, and this is my final advice to you. We can’t create, recreate, or change our human natures. We can only discover and then try to improve them just as they are.
Look at your characteristics for awhile, and then see if you can improve or even change them. Remember, I am not saying you can change your nature, but your characters and manners. These are different things altogether. Characters and manners are things we do as a result of our inner programming, our nature. We may train ourselves to think and then act in a certain, and then people think we have changed, but that’s only changing our manners. We will then one day get back to the default settings, which is our real and true nature.
I hope Characters as an article has been very helpful to you, personally. Would you like to share your thoughts about it below? I will deeply and surely appreciate your views about this article if you can leave them in the comments section below. God bless and keep you and your loved ones safe and secure during and after the global pandemic.
Shalom!
