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This happen to all of us… We all have a time when we wonder what to do. We aspire to something, we think it could be ours, we sat, we think, we balance every possibility and then, when we decide on the decision… we retreat.
And finally, why hide our feelings, desires, needs? We were created to love, to dream, to be honest after all… But people are more handy to lie, to put masks, to be duplicitous, hypocritical. Other than they usually are.
We, humans, prefer to stay away from our peers and to lie to defend ourselves. We run away from dreams and love, as an athlete at the end of the race, but then we feel alone and helpless. Each of us wearing a mask that hides the true core of his being. We play roles, sometimes dangerous, but when someone find out, all we knew about the “actor” is different; sometimes fragile which hiding, behind an immense curtain, anger directed inward.
When we are kids we learn to hide our weakness from the people. Because we know that an inner wound, when people find out about it, either re-open, either a new one show up. We always hope to the day when we will be ourselves.
But we are so scared by the society judgments that we bury deep in us the essence of our being, leaving at the surface the masks required by others.
Cu toții pățim asta… Toți avem un moment în care ne întrebăm ce să facem. Aspirăm la ceva, ne gândim că poate fi al nostru, stăm, ne gândim, punem în balanță orice posibilitate, iar mai apoi, când ne hotărâm asupra deciziei… batem în retragere.
Și până la urmă, de ce să ne ascundem sentimentele, dorințele, nevoile? Am fost creați ca să iubim, să visăm, să fim sinceri până la urmă… Dar oamenilor le este mult mai la îndemână să mintă, să-și pună măști, să fie duplicitari, ipocriți. Altfel decât sunt ei.
Noi, oamenii, preferăm să ne ferim de semenii noștri și să mințim pentru a ne apăra. Fugim de vise și de iubire, ca un atlet la finalul cursei, ca mai apoi să ne simțim singuri și neajutorați. Fiecare dintre noi poartă câte o mască ce ascunde adevăratul nucleu al propriei ființe. Jucăm roluri, uneori periculoase, care odată aflate schimbă tot ce știam despre “actor”; alteori fragile care ascund, în spatele cortinei imense, furie îndreptată spre interior.
De mici învățăm să ne ferim slăbiciunea de ochiul lumii, pentru că știm că o rană, odată aflată, ori se redeschide, ori apare alta. Mereu sperăm la ziua în care vom putea fi cu adevărat noi…
Dar suntem atât de speriați de Judecățile societății încât îngropăm în adâncul nostru esența ființei noastre, lăsând la suprafață măștile cerute de ceilalți.
Well said Monica!
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I think you are right. We all wear masks and hide our true selves. Lying to each other could be a way to avoid fighting with each other so the world might be kept in peace. But we tend to go too far. I don’t know the reason, but all the same we are living in the sea of lies. And, it is extremely unfortunate, most people lose themselves in the sea and become what they are not. Most of us don’t know what we truly are anymore. Though we don’t have to show our true selves to others, we must know what we are deep inside at least to ourselves. This is what I truly feel, and my major aim of my life is to find myself. A method I take for this is meditation. I don’t know if this is the right way, but I don’t know any other way just now. I hope doing something is at least better than doing nothing.
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I agree with you, AshiAkira. We are living in the sea of lies, as you say, because we want to be treated like a normal person. Because the normal is abnormal in our days.
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I love your deep thought.
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Thank you, Ashi! I think you are too kind
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No too. 🙂
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I meant to say “not too.” 🙂
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I understood, Ashi. Thanks again for your beautiful words. You are with me everyday and I like it 🙂
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I’m more than happy and honored. Feel like you are my own daughter… OK my grand-daughter. 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful thoughts beautifully written.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Life is a stage, where we are all actors – William Shakespeare
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He’s right 🙂
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We do it by following it 🙂
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Wow, we do have thought the same! Thanks for leading me to this post. Its true we all wear our special mask to hide out true feeling. Sadly, we live a life of lie. People have to start appreciating the uniqueness of each individual and encourage it to flourish.
Have a great day!
Arcane Owl
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this is very true.. we all wear masks.. but sometimes, its necessary.wearing a mask to hide the pain, wearing a mask to keep someone happy, wearing a mask to make the world feel you are what you are not.. but wearing a mask to cheat absolutely kills the purpose..
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Beautifully said, Sestina 😀
And very true
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thanks much dear.. would you mind telling me your name
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Monica ❤
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beautiful as you
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Aww… Many thanks 🙂
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which language are your posts in?
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Romanian 😀
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wow.. i love your posts… thanks for sharing
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❤
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This is very true Monica, we all have our masks, to protect ourselves and others, but I’m finding as I’m getting older that I’m dropping mine. Letting it fall. And letting the honesty in. Beautiful post my dear. 🙂
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Thank you so much, dear Miriam ❤
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O lume a măştilor nu înseamnă întotdeauna un carnaval peste care sunt presărate confetti. O lume a măştilor devine o lume a ipocriziei permanentizate. Cât de tristă e o astfel de lume… Renunțarea la mască, indiferent de părerile celor din jur, este sau ar trebui să fie demersul logic.
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Sunt de acord cu tine. Carnavalul inseamna joaca, distractie. Ipocrizia e bataie de joc.
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I tend to be someone who does not show his troubles. It I want someone to know, then I’ll tell him or her. It does not feel like lying to me. It is not like I am jumping for joy when I feel down. If I feel down, I just go about my business and tell someone if I want to talk to them about it. Some people have called me stoical.
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It’s good to be like you 😀
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It works for me. I’ve read some bits from the stoical philosophers and like what they have to say.
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If you are in harmony with yourself is wonderful 😀
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I don’t know how often I achieve such harmony but like most of us, I strive for it.
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I think that is all we need. To strive for it.
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De cele mai multe ori tindem să ne punem măști tocmai în ideea de a ne proteja. Cum ar fi să lași pe oricine să-ţi intre în suflet și să te știe pe de-a-ntregul?!
NUUUU, nu se poate așa ceva. Tocmai de aceea inima și mintea nu sunt un organ comun. Puneți mască cu cei care te acaparează pentru propria lor nevoie!
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Eu ii numesc vampiri energetici si nu numai 🙂
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I find myself in what u wrote…
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I am glad you liked it 🙂
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Very thoughtful Monica xx
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Thanks, dear Lynz!
xoxo
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xoxo
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