Nakedness

We all wear masks. To hide the biases that impact us as we grow.
From the time we grow out of infancy we are taught to conceal our feelings, cover up our fears and hatreds. But when stressed our masks fall off and our naked faces are revealed.

This i have learnt from reading books, associating and especially watching people that these masks manifest in different ways. Being quiet has its pecks... you get to watch people in the comfort of your silent corner.

So these faces i have learnt manifest not only in the way we speak, dress or approach people but also in the way we live or try to. In our associations and relationships. But the mask i love to watch the most is that of our relationships.

Yes we relate in every way, with others and most important with ourselves. Yeah with animals and with the enviroment too. This is the mask greatly impacted by the norms we learn as a child and the hardest to break.
Have you, if i may be so intrusive as to ask ever watched a person relate with themselves?
Or thought about how you relate with yourself? No, Yes? It does not matter you still relate either way.

Anyhow, have you ever wondered why you act the way you do? Have you ever watched your parents closely in the way they relate? Because its rare that your not a chip off the old block. And those saying they have no parents surely you have a parent  figure, a mentor, these people are always around us and we are shaped by their beliefs, affected by their actions or non actions whichever is the strongest of the two.

Ever heard the saying, " i was not raised that way" complicated phrase but also very serious. Ok lets try this one, "my family won't approve " or " my parents must never know" what about " if only my mother could see me now, she would faint."
Don't deny it you've said these words at one time, but alls good they don't bite they just affirm our masks.

Talk about relating with ourselves, ever wonder why MSM and WSW read (men who sleep with men and women who sleep with women) came up with the phrase coming out of the closet? In my opinion, all pretentious people who have beliefs too firmly beat into them as children have closets to bury their skeletons.

Ever heard the phrase, " show me a perfect family and i will show you a closet full of skeletons" ? We all have dirty laundry and if these masks are not adjusted to fit changes you experience, things you see, mistakes made or new beliefs ... We either break emotionally from the strain or commit murder ask Thomas something aka " Tonku" whatever his masks  or the size of his closet  the belief is his mask fell off and revealed his nakedness.

I wear a mask sometimes, you also do but what happens when the cover of society cannot shield you anymore? Can you still have your indiviualilty and am not talking about your personality. Those are usually cemented by what people think about you.
The question is, do you know who you really are? When and if you associate with yourself or other people can you stand alone without always being dogmatic. You may think you are not dogmatic ... but are you or you not ? Thats the question.

    Always Orogot Pamela