False Ego Masquerade
Pretense, so much pretense is engulfing us as human beings. So many layers upon layers build up covering our true selves. We can not thrive well enough because of all the veils we have lifted inside and out. Why is it so hard for us to be real with ourselves, to be real to our kindred spirits without having the ego trapping us. What are we afraid of? Is it the fear that our true self is a monstrous, selfish, nonempathetic, impulsive beast? Is that all that is left of us? We seem to be so different, even more, we desperately try to differ from one another following too many ideologies, but who's to say what (whose) belief is the true belief. Maybe we have been given the same basic code of DNA but just to make things more interesting countless combinations have been made possible. And with that thought in mind, we feel so lost on our own given terrain. I often wonder, do we intentionally try to complicate things by lying, pretending, covering up, hiding behind our s...