Authenticity revisited

Thanks to Jen, who pointed me in the direction of another view on authenticity.

Go ahead and read it. It's a good one.

And now let's talk about personal authenticity. My previous entry was sort of a sarcastic, skeptical take on the commercialization of authenticity ("pay 4x as much money for this vinegar/tire/hammock/whatever because it's AUTHENTIC even though it, too, is made in China.") but personal authenticity is an entirely different animal.

The Joseph Pine talk on TED specifically addressed the value of being true to oneself in addition to being what you say you are to others. Are you loving? In order to be authentically loving, you must do things to love yourself and do things to love others. (love as a verb is a whole 'nother topic)

Honestly, I feel that this is the only sort of authenticity that you can be 100% sure of because you know where it comes from, you can see the fruits of it, and you know how much of you is really behind what you say and do. Some people might call this integrity.

And now off I go to clean some more. Even having two kids in school leaves little time for getting into human nature.