The shallow pool cannot look deep, and the ocean defies measurement by the eyes alone; it's only with probing that one comes to understand the difference.
As for masks...they only come alive when worn.
If that clarifies, or confounds...?
To these thoughts, I'd add, it's not the human psyche which is simple, or shallow--ever, but it's the perceptions of the psyche that are limited by the observer. People are complicated creatures, colored by moods and shaped by circumstances; all nature, nurture, and nobility entwined in a coil encompasing and defying DNA and the Cosmos at once. Don't sell yourself short by trying to sum yourself up. For you, or for others.
And if you must, at least credit yourself with being the sum of a beautiful complication of bio-chemical mathematics, an equation devised by divinity.
The masks are, from my own observations, as much ourselves as we want or need them to be. I guess the real problem with this situation is if these splinters of ego develop a life unto themselves. How we react to certain situations can be problematic insofar that we allow ourselves to react as opposed to conscious decision making. Impulse is always difficult to control.
I don't think truly shallow or simple people have the ability to be anything other than what they are. As for the complex and profound amongst us, using a mask of their polar opposite doesn't make them that, but may help with understanding.
Hmm ... I can't help but wonder if any of that made sense.
Contemplations of self can be draining - at least that's my excuse for avoiding them whenever possible. The question is - are the masks a lie, or just another component of 'I am'? Are we as individuals so simplistic that we can be summed up in such a way? Okay, some people are. Writing is the window to the soul - but does that make those of us who write about shallow things, shallow people?
Sorry, not sure where this is going. To steal a line from chicochica from just a few days ago, sorry to blog in your blog. I should probably go pretend to work now.
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