Who
are you when nobody is watching? With whom in your life can you be whom you are
when no one is looking? I bet in
most cases you are yourself with one or two people, and I wonder what keeps you
from simply being yourself, as if no one was watching, but when everyone’s eyes
are on us?
My heresy today is an invitation to try to be whom we are when no one is watching, our authentic self, with no makeup, masks, chains, walls, brakes, fears. Because in the end, what keeps us from being ourselves is actually the fear of what others think of our true, naked self, and the irony of it is why be afraid if the others will never be completely pleased. There will always be those who do not like the way we are or who we are pretending to be. In our yearning for approval, we loose ourselves. We loose that wonderful, fun being that we are when nobody is watching.
I say fun because I also bet that when we think of whom we are when we are ourselves, it puts a smile on our face. Perhaps we talk to ourselves, sing or dance… Whatever we are, there is sure to be a smile behind the mask. So why not let it show? Why not give the world the most extraordinary being we have inside, who we are when, like Alejandro Sanz put it, “our skin is no limit".
So let’s live as if our skin was not the
limit to our being. This leads me
to some words that I love and I believe are anonymous wisdom:
"Work
like you don’t need the money,
Love
like you’ve never been hurt and
Dance
like there’s no one watching"
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