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The word "Person" comes from "Persona" (latin) and "Persona" meaning mask, a mask that we have to wear sometimes in society. Sometimes we have to be political, we have to use this persona.
The question is: Who are you? Who is your persona? Who do you think you are and what you are forced to do to behave so you can survive in the society.
Love
Paulo
i have tried to be true to myself and people around me all my life,
but i also learned that if sometimes i didn’t put on this persona mask, i lose things.
and now i face myself who is behind a mask.
however i must say, at least we do know that we put on masks.
we are nothing stronger than a reed, but we make ourselves even more vulnerable by knowing the fact that we are weak.
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I believe the most difficult thing for me to do is talk about myself and judge myself…..The one who knows who he is, and acts upon it, is a wise man…
I was wandering the same question the other day, and i thought that the best way to answer this was to answer the question :How i would like to be remembered…with one word…The one word that came to my mind immediately was : music…
So i am music…i am melodies..
The mask i used to wear was another me..and i was someone else that was not me..and i dont wish to wear this mask for any reason…i try to be myself at all times…This is tough and rough sometimes, but at least it is me..and i wont deny who i am , for anything..to be liked or “loved”..
Love and Graditude
Annie
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dear paul,
what am i supposed to do on this planet. i mean it seems to me like i don´t find any place to fit in with my personality or do i even project myself as this person and getting therefore away from being the person i am supposed to be?
i was typing this exactly sentence a few minutes ago into google search and found your blog.
i think i started ten years ago of changing myself into the real myself i am, which is good and shows honest progress, but very sad on the other hand, because i also experiences that there is not much room for this kind of persons.
person or person?
i don´t want to wear a mask and being that persona people want me to be. the world we know is a place that forces humans to pretend to be someone that we do not are and don´t want to be sometimes but we have to compromise and arrange somehow to get along with it.
it is wrong to live a live with false pretenses to gain profit and making ourself looking better than we really are because that forces others to do so too like in a chain-reaction.
the exception we have to make to live our lifes in societies is, to be honest with our selfs to be able to be honest with others.
it is easy to lie to get others to like us as we would like our selfs and if we live that lie long enough we don´t requested it anymore and arrange with it until we don´t even know the difference.
i need time of of european dominated life and want to go to quite places and do honest work to help others. and that is what i do.
there is so much more to say but i stop right there and wish you and all the others best luck for good decisions and a good life.
kind regards
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A persona is extremely useful because it can help deflect those people we don’t want to associate with and attract those whom we feel will add to our lives. It becomes a debilitating lie when it makes intimacy with other people virtually impossible. Usually a persona develops during high school and solidifies until something happens that necessitates its reevaluation. Few are so authentic that they can avoid reevaluating their personas altogether.
I am currently struggling with replacing my persona and striving to become a real person. It’s tiring to wear masks all the time, even if it seems safer to do so.
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A mask…
We use it to hide ourselves from others beacuse were afraid that they’ll know who we really are.
And sometimes we mask ourselves because even we don’t even know who we really are yet.
I still don’t know what my persona is but I think it’ll come to me sooner or later.
-Angeline
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