Are you being played? By Your Self???
Do your friends know you as a different person than the folks at work? Are you a different person at home than with your family? If you are boogie-ing between roles that Life can sometimes scratch out a bad mix and you're living life thankful to not be caught between costume changes, then chances are you are living a life of pretense.
Elaborating Reality in an effort to sidestep boredom, living out a separate reality because everyone is so stinking narrow-minded that you NEED a mask, working to be DIFFERENT that it sometimes feels like indentured servitude, who is it really serving? Do you feel like master of your life or does it feel like the mask is mastering you?
It is said that "knowing thyself" is a key to happiness but what is going on when a day is an odyssey of bringing out different characters to the stage?
In the past I've done mask work on stage. Change your mask, change your body... mannerisms. It was fun to play with the changes. I became very conscious of details... of how to hold my hands, my head. There were no words. I had to speak with my body.
But what happens when you make a mask for yourself and you cannot go offstage without it? What happens if you outgrow a mask but you don't know how to take it off? What happens if you've been working from a script for so long and you no longer love the character that you've created?
In a world that cares about how you look, what does it take to present oneself in naked honesty? Some days we look fantastic, other days not as great.. and some days less than good.
For the month of September, our back to school theme is "getting back to the self" in the school of life.
We all have egos and sometimes they get in the way of possible worlds.
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JNET
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