C’è una maschera per la famiglia
Una per la società
Una per il lavoro
E quando stai solo
resti nessuno. (Luigi Pirandello)
"There is a mask for the
family, one for the society, one for the job. But when you're alone
no one remains”.
I did not know Pirandello's work so well as to criticize him. I don't know if the last sentence of this aphorism
was intentionally negative or not. I do not think that the human
personality is like an onion where you remove layer after layer to
reach the tasty core.
First in my experience every mask we
wear in every moment of our lives is just OUR, OWN mask. Every one of the
thousands of masks we build accurately and with passion in our lives,
are just a product of ourselves.
Maybe we build each mask with the
purpose of hiding something however I believe we wear masks to reveal
and show some parts of ourselves.
Social masks are just facets of our
mind that we want, decide or just let others see. Sometimes those masks work perfectly together, are consistent one to another, are
showing coherently what others see like a specific personality.
Sometimes that's not happening, Sometimes what the others see is a
magmatic material with no sense and coordination or, worse, they see a different path and characteristics. In that case people can say you
are a strange person, maybe eccentric or for sure a little difficult to
approach.
But still you can live perfectly well
with that. But sometimes you feel that a mask is a little uncomfortable,
maybe you sense and feel like with wearing a physical masks, having
something heavy on your face that doesn't fit adequately.
Just in this moment, your friends can
call for “yourself” maybe in the paradoxical way of “please, be
Yourself! Like it would be possible for you to be other than “Yourself”.
So, who and what are your friends
calling for? Who or what is that “Yourself” that they seems to
know very well? And if that is “yourself” who or what are are the
other “selves” that you sometimes pretend to be? A different
person? State of mind or what?
I believe that each of us is just
all the masks he or she is used to wear with no exception! Myself if it is
a real thing, is just a like certain movies, “written, directed,
produced … and acted out by this person called “Myself”.
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