Who are you? No, really, who are you? That is question that can be tough to answer at times. We tend to put on so many masks and go through so many changes depending on our environment or our circumstances. This is a survival technique that we have picked up over time, we rarely show people who we really are, and we tend to give them a perverted version of ourselves to satisfy what we think that person might be comfortable with. Our professional friends know only our work selves, our church friends know only our holier selves, we have friends that call only because we are the life of the party and then we have other people that know us as being the quite one. There are only a few people in our lives that know us for who we truly are, past the facade and the makeup and the bogus intentions, these people know us to our core. Those who know us in this manner are the ones that keep us grounded, we can’t fool them with all of the bullshit that can build up over time, no these people know exactly who and what we are and sometimes that can be a little scary.
But what happens when through all of our different faces and masquerades we forget who we really are? What happens when we start believing the lies we tell others, those moments where you are putting on for who you are around and you begin to believe that this is the real you. We all act differently when we are in a new place or surrounded by new people, you almost have to if you want to protect who you really are from what they may really think. The problem with that is you can easily get lost in the shuffle and forget what makes you, you. Like on The Wizard of Oz when the Wizard says "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" because that's the man you really are, the true you.
We should all take the time out to do a little introspection and reacquaint ourselves with who we really are... So allow me to reintroduce myself, Hi I'm Benjamin and who are you?
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