“You see, there’s a fundamental connection between seeming and being.” - Patrick Rothfuss
A deeply tragic, yet integral and inevitable part of our lives is that, no matter how great our efforts to avoid and elude it, we all pretend to be something other than what we are – to be what is often demanded of us.
We pretend...
But there is an underlying danger to pretence. Seeming to be is the easiest and most alluring path to becoming. Humanity has seen this repeatedly, this simple fact has become an inseparable aspect of what we perceive our roles as individuals should be.
We know masks are dangerous. We know that if you pretend to believe or to be something for a certain period of time, you shall, eventually, believe it with all your heart and realise you are now someone else. Indeed, we know everything about masks...
Yet, we also possess a wonderful proficiency, a peculiar, inexplicable ability to know how to ignore the lessons we have learned.
My dear, vociferous readers, have you wondered lately about the mask you have chosen?
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