Been there, done that

While I was reading earlier I came across a part of the novel wherein the main character was talking about how people have an inside person and an outside person.  And the outside person is the face they show the world, and is maintained by the inside person.  And that with some people, those two are actually one in the same.  But not most people.

For the ones who are "lucky" enough to be one in the same, they are stronger for it.  The character postulated that the closer to the same that those two are, the stronger the person is.  He further postulated that sometimes the person inside loses it, and the outside person is destroyed.  He had mixed thoughts about whether or not that was a good thing.  He thought in some cases it could be, but argued back that it was also possible that some religions and philosophies only said that because they valued change in, and of itself, as a good thing.

I just found that all interesting.