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WHO WOULD YOU BE IF YOU WERE YOU
If a creative person invents a character
Fleshed out in every detail
The inventor of the character would want to feature that character
In stories, plays, novels, movies, dramas
As they go along the character develops personality quirks
As well as growing in texture and dynamism
The same thing happens when we develop an ego-persona
A version of ourselves we invented to survive our early situations
Did we need to be tough, or compliant, or helpful or touchy
Do we need a snappy comeback, the readiness to fight
The pleasing child is not pleasing by nature
They get their cues from their family and society
A criminal household will produce thug children
A religious family will have pious children
A reasonable family will have adaptable children
Then at adolescence the child rebels at their role
They want to be who they truly are
But this is impossible - the basic strategies are already ingrained
This is how people end up being the way they are
They are a character invented over the years to be either compliant
Or rebellious against the past
Just as an actor reads the script for their lines
The ego-persona reads the situation so they can play their part
Angry and belligerent, or would give you the shirt off their back
It doesn't matter, this is just the role they inherited
A role they are trapped in and doomed to repeat over and over
Unless
They wake up
Begin to wonder why they act this way
Once the role is questioned it starts to appear as it is
A knee jerk reaction that sometimes works against our best interests
A futile merry go round of behaviors that accomplish nothing
Are an embarrassment, and creates problems
The biggest surprise is the relief we feel when we go off script
We may not yet be our authentic selves but we are finally on the path
To finding out who we actually are
So we can live our authentic lives as our true selves
Before we take our last bow on the stage of others' expectations
And hightail it out of there to parts unknown.
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