'Drop your mask, be true to your self', 'know your self' .... these are lines I read and hear and makes me wonder. 'Know thy self ' is a killer topic I've pondered for ages and drifted constantly from hence shall leave it for later discussion...
I was chatting with a friend this morning, trying to dissect the line 'drop your mask, be true to your self '.... I for one cannot fathom where the mask drops and where I begin, try as I may it is a fine line if such a line exists at all and I've not yet figured the boundaries.
My friend argued that for example if I do not like someone but is nice to such person that being nice is my mask which would eventually drop However, for me being nice to that person and not showing my dislike though on the face of it seems like two layers is but just one nature that's me. The nature of not wanting to show any dislike, a nature of avoiding the embarrassment of a face off, a nature of wanting to be liked and may be thought of and spoken off as amiable and nice... Therefore the 'mask' of being nice to that person I do not really like in fact is no mask at all to my comprehension. That essentially is what I am, possibly hypocritical, possibly weak, but a MASK? not really, its what I am, A me that wants to be liked... So at which point does my 'real self' cease and I don a mask? its not really clear ... Its all me... with a mask?
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