"honestly have you ever been honest with yourself
or are you someone else's point of view?"
Terminal - Dark
or are you someone else's point of view?"
Terminal - Dark
How many of us are actually who were really are?
Who are we really?
How do we know who we are if we aren't ourselves?
Maybe "yourself" is who you are when you are alone.
All of us wear some sort of mask, to conceal some aspect of ourselves:
I'm not really sure this would be beneficial to anyone.
- Up yourself annoyingness to hid insecurities
- Butterflies, unicorns and super happy fun times, to hide our deep inner depression
- Flirtatious, attention seeking to hide how unacceptable we feel.
What if we were really honest with ourselves and with others?
What would it mean for our friendships and relationships?
This sorta introductions would ensue:
Robbie: " Hi, I'm Robbie, and I'm addicted to Hillsong/Making really bad puns/sexual immorality/lying/xkcd/using words that I don't know what they mean/eating spam"
Nicholas: "Hi Robbie, I'm Nicholas and I am too (to one/any/all of the above."
R: "Er, Ok. Right this is awkward, better be on my way."
N: "Cheerio"
What would it mean for our friendships and relationships?
Does it mean that you always share with everyone all your struggles and all your happiness?
This sorta introductions would ensue:
Robbie: " Hi, I'm Robbie, and I'm addicted to Hillsong/Making really bad puns/sexual immorality/lying/xkcd/using words that I don't know what they mean/eating spam"
Nicholas: "Hi Robbie, I'm Nicholas and I am too (to one/any/all of the above."
R: "Er, Ok. Right this is awkward, better be on my way."
N: "Cheerio"
Haiku Time:
Sincerity gone
How do we live with ourselves?
Are we who we are?
How do we live with ourselves?
Are we who we are?
2 comments:
I don't know if i will have sufficient literary skill to transfer my idea to you... we will see i guess.
Today during class we had Blue Bradley. He is a StrengthsFinder coach. He told us about NZ culture and how we have a serious tall poppy problem. When someone gets to high we cut them down. We don't let ourselves get to high for fear of people chopping us down. When we meet people we can't talk about what we are good at.
During class we had to tell our neighbor what we are good at... or they had to tell us... sort of a both/and. So it was neat. I think there was a fear of being perceived as arrogant, but by over coming it we discovered a new set of people.
As individuals it is important to be confident about what we are good at. Be wary of being arrogant, but don't let it stop people from knowing what you can do well... this is a much better way to have others relate to you. :)
I am convinced we need to be honest with people we meet... about the good and the bad. Let us throw off masks... but also loose this fear that causes us to be only half people. :)
So yeah.
Hope you can make some sense of this.
Rock hard core.
Mykl.
Yeah awesomeness. I tend to think of the stuff we hide as being bad stuff, but often we hide our skills and gifts too!
Then, to make matters more complicated we can also be falsely humble - and we do this frequently as christians. The "Oh, it was all God" thing. No, actually if God did that, he would fully have done a better job!
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