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How Human Nature and Behavior Impact Character

Updated on October 9, 2023
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As a poet, therapist, and observer of human behavior, Janis has a keen awareness of what makes people tick and behave the way they do.

Human Nature Lives Behind the Masks

We hide who we really are behind the masks of our false selves.
We hide who we really are behind the masks of our false selves. | Source

We Yearn for the Taste of Sweets

Some of us secretly eat an entire plate of chocolate chip cookies in order to fulfill a decadent yearning.
Some of us secretly eat an entire plate of chocolate chip cookies in order to fulfill a decadent yearning. | Source

Human Nature and Behavior - A Poem

"Out of Character"


Reaching in the cookie jar

My second chocolate chip

The most expensive glass of wine

Savoring the sip


Imagining, I take a risk

These thoughts are unlike me

Stepping out of my small box

Inhibited yet free


Longing for forbidden fruit

The taste upon my tongue

Temptation calls my name aloud

A tune I leave unsung


Desire grows within my soul

For what is it I seek

Stepping into realms unknown

My character is weak


I venture out beyond my skin

My guard begins to drop

Slowly, slowly, slowly now

My conscience pleads me stop


Who is this inside my house

The reigns I place on thee

Completely out of character

She looks somewhat like me


In the flesh a human lives

Yearnings go untapped

Wants and needs so limitless

Scream to be unwrapped


Unfamiliar landscapes peak

From the inside out

Conflicting with the character

No one knows about


We hide between those characters

Two and sometimes three

Masked and hidden from ourselves

Wanting just to be


(JLE)

We Crave the Forbidden Fruit

We are drawn out of character by the things that look good but may be bad for us.
We are drawn out of character by the things that look good but may be bad for us. | Source

What Makes Up a Person's Character?

  • an aggregate of properties and qualities that distinguish one person or thing from another; a trait; good qualities (The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary, 1995)
  • nature, disposition, temperament, personality (The New American Roget's College Thesaurus, 1985)

The True Self is Hidden Behind the Mask

Makeup often masks who we really are, in and out of character.
Makeup often masks who we really are, in and out of character. | Source

Totally Out of Character . . . Or Not?

Which of these statements about character comes closest to who you are?

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We Fantasize Out of Character in Our Dreams

Our imaginings take us to places within ourselves where we are safe to act out of character in our dreams.
Our imaginings take us to places within ourselves where we are safe to act out of character in our dreams. | Source

© 2014 Janis Leslie Evans

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