Let's Digress

As I was browsing through old entries in my private blog, i came across this:

"I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who-am-i paradox. Sure, no one knows as much pure data about me as me. But when i talk about myself, all sorts of other factors, values, standards, my own limitations as an observer, make me, the narator select and eliminate things about me, the naratee. I've always been disturbed by the fact i'm not painting a very objective picture of myself...The more i think about it, the more i want to take a rain check on the topic of me. What i'd like to know more is about the objective reality of things outside myself. How important the world outside is to me, how i maintain a sense of equilibrium by coming to terms with it. Thats how i grasp a clearer sense of who i am." Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart

I'm a huge Murakami fan, so i thought i'd share this excerpt. The passage struck me as very apt after all the ES2007s lessons i've attended to date.

Sometimes, I really wonder, just how honest we are with ourselves.