Showing posts with label MyThoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MyThoughts. Show all posts
Masks...!
"Please let me be myself....!" Have you ever heard your soul is yelling like this? After being fed up of pretending : presenting yourself as someone else to the world.
Everyone of us has played this game, may be when you are with your crush, with your boss or with whom you want to impress. You feel like it's not real you that they see. Yet you don't want to change it, because you are afraid of loosing their attention. You hide yourself behind a "MASK".
The reason may be different : to impress some one, not to be neglected or to hide your own emotions, but most of the time you use a mask. So do I. Sometimes we have a collection of masks to be put on based on our immediate environment. Rather to meet different masks out there. Now if you feel "this is not my story", well! that is fantastic! But to be honest it is not the case.
Life is almost a masquerade party where everyone is wearing a mask and doing pretty crazy stuff. They know they are secured behind the MASK. We need this feeling of security because most of us always bother about others more than ourselves. We always hesitate what others would think about oneself, how would they react or would they laugh at us. Ultimately, your heart is getting heavy with the fear of being rejected, ignored and criticized. That fear forces you to put on a MASK. You try to make sure that you present yourself as it suits to the society.
Sometimes the society itself forces to hide our true inner selves. Expressing your true opinions on something may be destructive. In other case your views might not be compatible with others'. May be things are going wrong with you, yet you have to put a smile in your face, because no one is there to care. In each of these cases we have to be with a mask.
Sometimes we use masks neither because of the fear being rejected nor the expectations of the society, but for our benefits. It's an open secret that politicians are pretending in front of the public to retain their power. Not only them but also us, in our day to day life, hide our true selves in order to have benefits.
Whatever the reasons we are wearing masks, we add layers and accessories that add more credibility to the costume. Gradually the costume become heavier and heavier until it becomes to a point where you are living in someone else's life.
We end up with mental and physical exhaustion. We get burnt out from the effort of trying to maintain a facade. We breakup with ourselves - most valuable relationship in this planet. At the end, we will have a life full of suffering, or at least a life not enjoyable. We lose our authenticity. Our own thoughts, own views and ideas would be buried with our dead bodies which could have changed the world or at least our own lives.
So get real. Let the world identify you as YOU. You are another master piece on this earth.
Difference between what we do and what we have to do
Gold is more expensive than Silver
Platinum is the most expensive among silver, gold and
platinum
Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives: I’m pretty
sure each one of you has learnt those things at your English Grammar class.
But, have you ever thought why such forms called “comparative and superlative”
do exist? Think for a second. That is because we want to measure, filter or
quantify things we see, we hear and we feel. In one word we want to “Compare”
things around us.
Believe it or not comparison is something we do as many
times as we are breathing in our lives. Honestly, can you remember a single day
in which you didn’t get even a sense of comparison?
Today’s is hotter than yesterday
Yeah, I completed more work today. \m/
She looks prettier in that dress.
No, there is no a single day in our lives so far, that we have spent without comparing something to something else. If you try to get your memory when you
started this “Comparison” business, most probably it might be when you even
didn’t know the meaning of this word.
When your relatives visited to see newly born you, one of
the most
important things they wanted to know is whether you looked like your
mother or your father. For the first time comparison touched your ears. Journey
began. As you are growing you search for
more attention, more affection and more appreciation. Most of the times you get
into silly fights with your siblings just because you feel, they get more. The
journey continues in the school time and becomes worse when adolescence comes.
You want to be prettier, more attracting and more outstanding. This is endless until we go to the grave and
strangely it has become a part of our lives. We compare our houses, cars, our
jewelry, our kids, our dresses and blah blab
blah blab . It is better to ask what we
don’t compare rather than what we compare.
If this is simply an observation, that would be one thing, but
comparing ourselves to others, we often end up judging ourselves. The thing
about comparison is there is never a win. How often do we compare ourselves
with someone less fortune than us and consider ourselves blessed? More often,
we compare ourselves with someone who we perceive as being, having or doing
more.
“Envy is ever joined with comparing man’s self and where there is no comparison there is no envy.” ~ Francis Becon
The same door that is half closed can be seen as half opened. Same thing applies in comparison. Sometimes comparison is worth every bit of it. Do you know
comparison eventually leads to competition? Do you believe almost all the world
records are results of comparisons? Once this was said by the fastest woman of
our nation Susanthika Jayasinghe. In a 100m finals in a major international event such as Olympic competitiveness is at
its peak. When the event begins, as the silver medal holder comes closer and closer the gold medal holder
speeds up and reaches to a world record. You have no idea how much you can do
until you see a challenge to compete with you.
On the other hand, if you are wise enough you can use
comparison to tell yourself that you are luckier than thousands of people in
this world and keep your moral up.
“When you are complaining about what you have someone is fighting to have it”
Why are you wasting your valuable time thinking about others,
comparing yourself to others? Compare yourself to you.
How has your life improved?
What you have done recently that you never thought you could
do?
How have you stepped out in the last years you might found
inconceivable before?
The most amazing thing in the world is finding who you
are rather than peeping into others’ souls. So compare you who are today to who you were yesterday. Try to put one step forward everyday. Eventually you would have come a long
way.
Comparison is something that has the power to build a soul
as well as to kill. It’s up to you to choose your way. It’s your attitude
towards comparison. Wait..!
“Attitude determines altitude….!”
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