How much of yourself can you truly be?

         We all are living in self-doubt or fear which pulls us back from revealing our trueself and that has made this world a circus of masks. Is it the effect of time or the influence of people that has forced us to pull a veil on ourselves, is yet to be answered. We all are tremendously flawed and the realization of it makes us paranoid, whether we will fit in the social definition of "acceptable" or not!

    We all are far from being original because of the influence that people around us had on us. Our minds are not anymore ours. At every point of time, in every situation there ensues a huge fight between heart and mind, and sadly mind always wins. We always suppress what our heart wants to do because we are afraid how will it be percieved.
But the other side to it is that you cannot be completely open and transparent, because even nectar in excess becomes poison. Everyone knows how to speak, but blessed are those who knows when to shut up.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” 
― Bernard M. Baruch

    We live in a very comparative and competitive world, where most of our actions and thoughts are now driven by other people. We do things that are beyond our reach, we say things that are beyond our knowledge, we accept or reject something because everyone else does! We are no more the masters of our decisions.

“be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

   We live in a time where you make yourself vulnerable if you open up too much before someone. No matter how much time you have been together, how much you have talked, it is very important to keep certain things to self. We all are Alice in wonderland and we don't know where a fox is waiting for us in disguise.

  You cannot always be straight forward and blunt, nor can you always suppress your opinions and thoughts, it is important to strike a balance between the both because you cannot pick your nose in public or be abusive in open, there is a certain threshold of "Don't" to be followed in life. In a world where you are judged continuously, how much of yourself can you truly be?

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson