EndGameNYC

Although I'm biased in favor of what we do rather than what we think, I also believe that these two phenomena are inseparable. And I get what you mean.

I also believe that we know a lot more about ourselves and about life than we dare let on or acknowledge. We take on attributes that are the products of our fears and desires and confuse them with who we are. The self is not a thing, but a task; the things we do. To paraphrase a prolific existential thinker and writer, and someone who lived live fully, we spend a great deal of time and energy denying who and what we are, only to be done in, in the end, by our own denial. For people who spend most of their lives, if not its entirety, pretending to be what we are not is irredeemable and can only end in despair.

One might argue that there is no "bright side" to being human, only the consequences of what we do. From another perspective, that may well be the bright side.