Have you ever experienced a
time when you had a satisfactory day, and although it was normal,
towards the end of the day when you are alone, you start to get a
feel of something missing in your life as if a piece of you was just
not there and you can feel it, but unable to explain?
No I'm not here to preach to
you about the word of God, nor tell you that you need to find a
partner (I have nothing against any of those ideas because they may
be of great aid to you as well). But in order to bring peace to your
endeavor, let us clean off all the muck within our core, to find the
true color of who we really are.
The great playwright Oscar
Wilde once said,
"Man is least himself
when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell
you the truth."
In turn
Give a man something to hide
behind, he will show his true self.
We can see this everywhere
within life around us from the people hiding behind a computer and
leaving hateful comments, to behaving how we really are when no one
is watching.
How well do we really know
ourselves?
How well do we fair against
our own judgments?
How do we act towards people
in public versus what is actually on our mind?
We have learned to develop a
second mask for ourselves because of what society or parents have
told us what the right ways are, to conduct life.
Example.
In the western world, it is
very strange for one to lock eye contact with a complete stranger,
and to smile and say "HELLO!", but in a little place called
Sierra Leone in Africa, that is completely normal way to conduct
every day life!
I am not saying that one way
is better than the other since everyone has a different personality,
but a fictitious personality that is built for pleasing others, may
hinder your process of finding out who you truly are.
But once you've truly freed
yourself of who you really are, you begin to look at life with
limitless possibilities, and break down walls that people have told us
that is impossible to do as you once did when you held a childlike
heart!
"Every child is an artist.
The problem is remaining an artist once we grow up."
-Pablo Picasso
No one can show us the
answer, but only we can find it for ourselves since we know ourselves
best!
So I'd like to ask you
Who are you? And who is the
child like heart that you've left behind?
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