“Our lives only improve when we are willing to take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” ~Walter Anderson
For almost two-and-a-half decades, I hid behind masks. I sensed as a very young child that I lived honoring my true self, like most children do, but as I got older, I started putting on masks as a way to fit in. We all do that somewhere or the other. Its not something wrong but it becomes when these masks raise questions on the credibility of your sheer existence and define you as an entity that hardly exists.
It's hard to be honest . We all have our faults and its difficult to admit them. Sometimes we are so blindfolded by the mask itself,that we don't even realize what damage we are causing around.Its hard to be honest and i am not saying to be honest everytime . But at least be honest when you know that stakes are high.At least be honest when you know that even a single wrong word may change the dynamics of your whole life , let alone others around you.
Many a bonds have been broken just because we are not ready to give up our masks. Masks which we let define ourselves so much that we even forgot who we really are.So much so that we are scared that taking them of will leave us scathed , tattered and may demolish all our bonds. What we dont realize that relations are a two way affair. A word of honesty can lead to a knot in the thread which can still be opened but if the mask of self-delusional lie is not removed at the right time,it may just as well break the thread forever
I wouldn’t say that we have a “one size fits all” mask removal strategy, but I have found that when we are willing to step out of our comfort zone, good things will happen. We need to trust that.
We may need to take a leap of our own to get in touch with our true self. It doesn’t need to be huge, as long as we move forward in some way. Like the Nike commercials says, “Just Do it!” What’s important is to find what works for us and start moving, inch by inch, beyond our fear. Lets just be ourselves.Lets Be Honest.
For almost two-and-a-half decades, I hid behind masks. I sensed as a very young child that I lived honoring my true self, like most children do, but as I got older, I started putting on masks as a way to fit in. We all do that somewhere or the other. Its not something wrong but it becomes when these masks raise questions on the credibility of your sheer existence and define you as an entity that hardly exists.
It's hard to be honest . We all have our faults and its difficult to admit them. Sometimes we are so blindfolded by the mask itself,that we don't even realize what damage we are causing around.Its hard to be honest and i am not saying to be honest everytime . But at least be honest when you know that stakes are high.At least be honest when you know that even a single wrong word may change the dynamics of your whole life , let alone others around you.
Many a bonds have been broken just because we are not ready to give up our masks. Masks which we let define ourselves so much that we even forgot who we really are.So much so that we are scared that taking them of will leave us scathed , tattered and may demolish all our bonds. What we dont realize that relations are a two way affair. A word of honesty can lead to a knot in the thread which can still be opened but if the mask of self-delusional lie is not removed at the right time,it may just as well break the thread forever
I wouldn’t say that we have a “one size fits all” mask removal strategy, but I have found that when we are willing to step out of our comfort zone, good things will happen. We need to trust that.
We may need to take a leap of our own to get in touch with our true self. It doesn’t need to be huge, as long as we move forward in some way. Like the Nike commercials says, “Just Do it!” What’s important is to find what works for us and start moving, inch by inch, beyond our fear. Lets just be ourselves.Lets Be Honest.
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