Actually, I’m not surprised that someone could take a while to figure that out—there’s what I call the romantic fallacy (romantic in the philosophical sense, though it happens to overlap with common usage this time) that people’s unthought impulses are sacred.
The frequency with which people are given the advise “be yourself” in our society doesn’t help.
The frequency with which people are given the advise “be yourself” in our society doesn’t help.