Counterfeit self

We fabricate a counterfeit self because other people would not know how to relate to us otherwise. We know there is more inside, but other people are not taught how to relate to what is behind the mask. So we take on roles in life so our function can be identified, and then people know how to interact with us. Mother, teacher, lawyer, homeless guy, musician, crazy dude, obnoxious guy, pretty girl, smart kid, whatever. We all relate according to what we can get or what we can give. We’re not taught to communicate or interact from a deep place, so it gets filled with fear, insecurity, shame, confusion, hurt, anger. No love gets deep inside, so it is filled with these dark ‘demons’. We must put a mask on and bury all this fear and shame, lest we get no acceptance in this artificial world. This habit we learned as children because we received no love for the real and deep within us, but instead got rewarded for the various ‘positive’ masks we donned.