From reading another thread I am reminded of how public and private perceptions of people can be so different. For example, my father was clergyman, intellectual, teacher, mediator, a very serious though friendly fellow in public. Privately however, I remember him as outrageously funny, creative, sometimes irreverent, politically opinionated and often questioning authority, with wide, wide interests. It seems when people openly remember him to me they don't know him as I knew him. Sometimes it's hard to believe we're talking about the same guy.

Makes me wonder whether the same will happen to me and my kids.

Are we the same publicly and privately? Should we be? Do we hold back something from each to share only with the other? Is it instinctive, natural?

Peace, Mooh.