Your True Colors
Sometimes, we do have to realize that just because numerous people agree with something doesn't necessarily make that thing true.
Often times, I've heard people say that money brings out the true color of someone, true color in this sense meaning their true behavior. And people mostly say this because there are certain people who switch up on you the moment they make money.
But is that true? Does it mean that the behavior you have now that you're poor isn't your true self? Is it even fair to judge someone this way, totally ignoring the person that they were all those years ago when they had nothing?
Personally, I do not agree with such an analogy because, like I said, it's unfair to judge someone based off of one half of their lives and not the entire thing. The same thing also applies when someone ends up saying things out of anger to you.
Most people in that situation would say that your true self comes out when you're angry, but again, not true. What I believe happens in these times is a momentary form of emotions that I can only describe as being drunk either with money or anger.
I believe that people do get drunk off of the fact that they now have money, and then they get influenced by their new status, making them act in ways they normally wouldn't act. Now, that doesn't act like an excuse for their newfound bad behavior, but I believe that the same way alcohol can make us do things we normally wouldn't do if we weren't drunk is the same way money works; the same goes for anger too.
The only difference with anger is that at that moment, all we think about is saying something that would hurt that person, and in our desperation, we end up saying certain things that we most times regret.
All of these things and behaviors are not good, yes, but they also shouldn't be labeled as our true self while totally discrediting the days we weren't angry and did good things or the days we weren't rich and were kind.
Rather than only calling the bad side of someone their true color, know that people both have a good and bad side to them, and what side they show to you totally depends on what happens to them and their lives.
Someone who met him while he was poor but never when he was rich will probably always have something nice to say about that person, while someone who met him when he was rich and not when he was poor will probably only have bad things to say about that person.
Only a few people have the self-control to maintain their humility and character, no matter what changes in their lives.