A Glimpse Beyond the Facade

Just a little over 10 years ago I was talking with a friend who out of the blue asked, "Why are people so unhappy today". I would answer the exact same way today as I did back then, "Because they are afraid of themselves". People are truly afraid to be themselves and it is as obvious as anything I have seen. Take for example a woman who is going to run to the supermarket to buy a simple loaf of bread. It would take about 3 hours for her to put on her make-up, mascera, nail polish, lipstick, jewelry, and best dress just to spend 3 minutes in the store to buy her bread. There is no way a woman can roll out of bed and step out her front door without first putting on her mask and hiding her true identity from the world. It is a shame because women are so much more beautiful without their warpaint. More authentic, more genuine, more true. Men on the other hand, are a little different but just as silly. They don't care what they look like. They don't much care what they sound or smell like either. But god forbid, their cars better be in top shape. A man will spend as much time on their cars as women do on themselves. Cleaning, waxing, polishing, scrubbing the tires. All this energy expended for a simple mass of metal (plastic these days). All this so their buddies can see them buzzing around town in a shiny sports car. A man would lose his manhood if he were seen riding a bike or walking on foot. If people tried to express their true natural identities they would become very uncomfortable with themselves and become basket cases. That is why people lie about who they are, how much they earn, their job position, the worth of their house and so on. If people told the truth of who and what they are representing or living, they would hate themselves and so they play the 'life game' stressing themselves out to no end just to get some fleeting gratification from outside sources. They spend all their time and energy trying to impress rather than to live. Everyone is trying to outdo each other in an endless cycle of superfical existence. It is evident everywhere. Many people will eventually go broke trying to keep up the facade. Their wallets and purses run dry and then they run for their credit cards and eventually their credit runs out as well. What happens next is peculiar. When all their assets run out they are forced to humble themselves (although rather poorly) and they are knocked back down to earth so-to-speak and are forced to deal with their more true identity. They become so depressed in having to come face-to-face with their unadulterated nature that they go see 'shrinks' to help them deal with themselves. The 'head boys' will put them on depression medication such as prozac and the patient feels better because they now have a way to escape themselves in yet another creative way. Rest assured folks, society will be only too happy to disassociate you from your true self. Any doctor, priest, teacher, social worker, psychologist, lawyer, politician, dentist, guru, master, food distributor, drug company, will love to knock you off your center point and align you on the periphery of social sickness. Then these same folks will tell you how much they care for you and will demand credit for all the "benifits" you receive from them. This whole charade is possible only because you have allowed them to manipulate you. Why have you allowed them to manipulate you? Very simple. Because you are afraid of yourself !