Thursday, December 24, 2009

Keep the Car Running


I sometimes wonder why certain people try so hard to be someone other than who they truly are. It's just mind boggling to me.
I see no reason to live a fictitious life - we only live once, you might as well be who you truly are and want to be. I guess that statement is sort of misleading though - since many people want to be someone other than who they really are.

I don't even know why I am writing about this right now. It's just been something that has been on my mind lately due to the falsified people around me and it has been a reoccurring theme in my own personal life.
I see no reason to change who I am, for anyone. I'm not saying I don't have faults, because everyone has faults and I have many of them. However, my faults make me who I am, for better or for worse. Everyone evolves over time, and perhaps one day the faults I currently call my own will no longer be part of me, but as for the immediate moment they represent a part of who I am.

I have totally digressed though. That's not even what I was truly originally talking about. I just feel like everyone is an actor now a days. Everyone's trying to be somebody else. Whether it be to pacify someone else or even superficially pacify themselves.

Or maybe I'm just bitter that I'm not an actor. If I was, perhaps I would have more friends and I wouldn't have so many people asking me on a daily basis if something was wrong with me, right? Or maybe, I'm such a good actor that I have successfully convinced myself that I am not one, and that I am true, but in reality I am just like you.