The Third-Person Self · Spiritual Rebels

The Third-Person Self

I‘ve been trying for a short time to get into the habit of speaking about myself in the third person in my head for everyday things like:

He gotta take a shit.

He is angry.

He is hungry.

He thinks this and that, etc.

This seems like a clever trick to create distance. It helps me separate myself from my self-image, my emotions, thoughts, and my body/flesh. Instead of identifying with everything, I see it as an observer: so the ego is no longer my enemy or my master, but a partner in a symbiotic relationship.

I remain the one who directs it without letting it devour me.

It’s like a game or theater or satire.

I build up the ego, push it with affirmations, etc., but I always know that “he” is just the mask I wear to achieve my goals.

The idea came to me from the anime “Record of Ragnarok” when Apollo fought Leonidas in the second season.

Life is truly limitless, and you can be whoever you want. A huge theater piece.

At the end of the day, I can take off the mask and always be who I am, in silence.

It’s best to speak of oneself in the third person only in one’s thoughts and not in conversations with other people because otherwise they think you’re a psychopath 😹

But what do yall think about this?

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