Get Rid of The Mask...
We are taught in this world, this society, this culture that there are certain checklists to be ‘successful.’ We must get that white picket fence, blue-trimmed house, and SUV with the 2.5 kids singing to ‘sponge bob square pants’ on the way to wonderland (I stole that last part from my muse). But really? And if we are not there, do we wear a mask? Do we say, “I’m good” when asked how things are when what we are really thinking is, “is this really what life is all about?”
Why are we fighting to not show who we really are? Why are we afraid to show our weak spots, our human flesh, our inability to be superhuman? Why are we wearing masks?
If we have any type of imperfection, do we try to hide it? To have imperfection is human. And to be human, to be flesh, is to be less than perfect. So folks, if we are less than perfect, we don’t get that A in school. We don’t get a smiley face sticker from our professor, our boss, or the people that love us. Because receiving that perfection symbol is what we then mistake as filling a void. And trying to reach external gratitude is just filling that void, that loss of unconditional love that we can’t feel within ourselves.
So, we put on masks. We put on ‘external happiness.’ We displace who we really are for social value and social acceptance when what we are really doing is dying a slow, but brutal death because no one will ever know who we really are. Even ourselves. Wearing masks, putting up a shield, or placing walls around us only gets us to a place of fantasy, never to a place of reality. Nobody knows what you need. Nobody knows who you really are. Nobody is there to help you during the worst crucial stages of our human life when we need that person to just accept. The price of being someone you’re not is devastating.
You will find the answer within you if you just let it go, if you just let yourself falter, if you just let things come around in time but at the same time be true to who you are and who you are to others. Find yourself with open arms.
Stop paying the price it takes to get an A. Stop paying the price of the smiley sticker. Just know that you are human, you are imperfect, and you are not the only one.
Why are we fighting to not show who we really are? Why are we afraid to show our weak spots, our human flesh, our inability to be superhuman? Why are we wearing masks?
If we have any type of imperfection, do we try to hide it? To have imperfection is human. And to be human, to be flesh, is to be less than perfect. So folks, if we are less than perfect, we don’t get that A in school. We don’t get a smiley face sticker from our professor, our boss, or the people that love us. Because receiving that perfection symbol is what we then mistake as filling a void. And trying to reach external gratitude is just filling that void, that loss of unconditional love that we can’t feel within ourselves.
So, we put on masks. We put on ‘external happiness.’ We displace who we really are for social value and social acceptance when what we are really doing is dying a slow, but brutal death because no one will ever know who we really are. Even ourselves. Wearing masks, putting up a shield, or placing walls around us only gets us to a place of fantasy, never to a place of reality. Nobody knows what you need. Nobody knows who you really are. Nobody is there to help you during the worst crucial stages of our human life when we need that person to just accept. The price of being someone you’re not is devastating.
You will find the answer within you if you just let it go, if you just let yourself falter, if you just let things come around in time but at the same time be true to who you are and who you are to others. Find yourself with open arms.
Stop paying the price it takes to get an A. Stop paying the price of the smiley sticker. Just know that you are human, you are imperfect, and you are not the only one.
posted by Betsy Blue at 10:54 PM
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