Over the years I have come to appreciate the importance of being recognized….being recognized for who you truly are. This means that you are not just being defined by the labels that are initially stuck to you but are being understood for the real being inside. Needless to say this is not an easily achieved luxury, for I would like to call it a luxury since it gives you a strange sense of liberation. Luxury and liberation, the two nouns which might be exchangeable in the context, portray that when you are being liked or even disliked for the inner person you are, then you no longer have to don on those masks of pretence. Shakespeare says, and I am not quoting exactly that this world’s a stage and we are all playing parts. So naturally if once in a while you could simply kick back and relax and just be yourself, like in with your friends then there is no bigger luxury than letting off your guard and be at ease….ah the liberty!

 

Recognition comes from many things, from your way of communication, the way you carry yourself, the way you eat, sleep, drink, whatever but you know as they say: “ you are not what YOU think you are but what you THINK, you ARE!” and this thinking is reflected to the world through your art of expression.  Having the ability to express yourself is a wonderful blessing of God, for it enables others to have a sneak peek into our souls, given others have that ‘red’ eye to analyze and infer. This point might be debate able, for more often than not we prefer to be veiled inside our cocoons, hidden beneath the layers and layers of makeup to hide what’s vulnerable and easily hurt but what we all want in all actuality is someone who understands. You, I, we all want a mentor, a guide, a savior who will help us out of our own woven webs of confusion and the raging storms of questions…so we make efforts to express our thoughts through the skills that we have….slightly smudged, slightly dubbed, but our thoughts and emotions nonetheless!

 

Expression of thoughts, is an art; writing, poetry, acting, dancing, music, scientific inspiration, sports……the tones in these, happiness, comedy, harshness, aggression, passion, melancholy, pacified, slow, fast, bright, dull all these define what’s cooking inside your brain. And when someone goes beyond the obvious show and into the implied meaning of, say a piece of prose, a portion of poetry,  the speedy whirling  of a ballet dancer, the abstract  splash of colors on a canvas, it’s then that the other side of the picture starts to get clearer. It is then that who you are, what you are starts to come into being because unless you are not able to truly be yourself, you are not really existing at all like…Sean Paul, Pearce Bronsan or Daniel Craig are no macho, savvy high tech private eye, they are no James Bond…they are different people altogether, all playing the same role at one point or another …sadly though THIS became their identity and they live as ghosts in the shadows of this projected image. You don’t want to play just another part, you want to be yourself and your power of expression gives you that luxury and liberty to be recognized as such. So this is what it all wraps up to, there is a great importance in our lives of being recognized…being recognized for we truly are….

 

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Abraham Lincoln said: “if I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?”…. I think am I wearing the right one? May we have the courage and opportunity to be who we really ARE!