Being me; i need my masks of: business woman, trust worthy, honest, housewife, friend, daughter, strenght, temptress, solution finder, lady, thinker, animal rights protector, traveler, educated gril, competitor, diva, good spirit, brave adventurer, helper, rudeness, wise woman…

masks of choice and a masks of necessity.

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.

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

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.

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

Very shortly put, I believe we are spiritual beings, who are trying to get into terms with their human bodies and its limitations life after another. Or rather than trying to ‘get into terms with’, which would require accepting the limitations, we are trying to brake free of them, we are trying to be as much of our higher selves as we can through our human bodies, or possibly some other type of bodies in different planes. It’s all very fascinating and I’m keen to learn more.

Masks?

We use masks as a shield. Behind the shield we are free to learn techniques that allow us to live without the shield. We also use them as tools for learning. But while we learn through them they also make our learning process slower than what it would be with out using them. But I suppose we are afraid of the pain it would cause to be bunched by life while uncovered. We are afraid we would not know how to respond to the bunch, because we wouldn’t have learned how to handle it yet. Taking a bunch uncovered would require trusting your instincts to handle the response. There would be no quarantee of anything.

Masks I use: silence, patience, ignorance, playing stupid, playing more clever than I am, being careless, being lazy, being busy, being pretty, being ugly… etc..

Love

You do what you have to do..

It can be the ultimate in selflessness and selfishness at the same time.

In a Kafka-esque way, you stand at the gate, waiting on the gatekeepr and you might never get in; but at least it’s your door.

I think you could never see who you are unless you see others.
You can see who you think you are or who you want to be.
But you can never see your true self without relating and referring to others.
Persona-the mask,is probably what you need in order to go through this journey of finding oneself amongst other people.

The persona you create or placed upon you by environment/upbringings/culture etc. is probably a guide in finding the person inside you,though it could make things more confusing at times.

In Japanese, the character “person” or “people” is made from 2 lines coming together almost as though they are leaning against one another or maybe dancing the tango:). It can also look like a single person walking.
The two character that form the word “human being” consist from this character “person/people” and the character “between”.

You can’t be a “person” on your own. We are meant to live amongst(between) other people where we grow “persona” in various situations and exchange this. This is where we become a “person”, where we can learn to see who we are for the first time.

My writing abilities are not the best, but these are my thoughts.

this is a question that is coming back to me every now and then since many years now,
as i am a teacher i saw myself often forced to behave in a creatain way, or dress in a ceratain way, talk and behave in a certain way… and this is something my soul doesn`t want me do much longer.
i am almost fed up with making myself believe that i have to do this or that. but it`s all not really the truth. the truth behind things is not what he got educated to be like, or to act like, the truth is behind all of that. the truth lies within a long forgotten knowledge, that each soul knew already before we got tought how to behave and got made forgotten about who we truly are.

but it doesn`t matter, we can go back to there, i just hope i will have the streght and the courage not to fall back into so called security, which infact isn`t one, because when the soul cries, we lose our life. once we can follow what`s deep inside ourselves, then we`re truly saved

love, e.

The thing about ‘Persona’ is, because it has been given a written meaning, it becomes limited. On the surface, it seems black/white i.e. mask/no mask. In reality, it is so much more. First, most humans wear several masks. Even if they don’t realize it, they do. Since we are operating in a few worlds (physical, metaphysical, cognitive, spiritual), the persona we must bring to each has the potential to morph and shift to accommodate the lessons we must gather on the journey.

We are who we are guided to be if we are conscious (some may even say ‘enlightened’) people. Personally, I’ve experienced many personas, those of Orisa, Egungun, and some of my own choosing in situ. So, persona is the beautiful baby of our relationship matrix with the Universe.

Blessings to your work.

Start to be, not pretend. Be egoistic, be crazy, be angry, be polite, be happy, be nice, be anything you are, but don’t lie to yourself about what you should be. That way you’ll find that world inside the world you belong to. Good luck!