heart without words?

I’ve always been one to believe that a persons actions and words reflect their person, that by what one says to another, it’s possible to decipher at least a small portion of who they are.

However, this does not appear to be the case anymore.

There’s a movie that is quite interesting, it’s called “The Invention of Lying”, and not to ruin the plot, but basically one man finally discovers how to be untruthful.

And all of a sudden, whenever he portrays himself to someone else (where the entire world believes everything is true), he gains the ability to have them perceive them any which way he pleases.

While this makes for a humourous hour and a half on the big screen, I find it tragic that to a certain extent we seem to act accordingly in our everyday lives. Countless people live their lives in constant fear of judgment from the outside world, so much so that we create a false face that we present to everyone we meet, whether for 5 years or 5 minutes.

It’s a sad reality that we care about what strangers think of us, so much to the point that we suppress that which we love, that which makes us feel alive, just to be what society deems as “acceptable”, or at least “passable”.

Personally, I find that all this needs to change, people are people, and everyone is uniquely beautiful in their own way. We bring our charms and our quaint mannerisms to every situation and change it in a way nobody else would be able to.

I believe that every single person should live a life that reflects on the outside exactly what is going on internally, that people would be exactly who they are to everyone they meet. Imagine a world where we could trust one another and be trusted by everyone to BE exactly who we seem to be.

If only people could say what they meant, from who they are, as opposed to trying to be someone else. When we put a mask over our entire personality we rob our statements and actions of their soul, we take out essentially the only thing that matters, ourselves.

Perhaps it’s time that we start speaking from who we are, not who we think we want to be. Our hearts are screaming for expression, and perhaps it’s time we let them speak.
lctx.