“Ka feeler ba.” These are words we utter in our minds or hear when we see or hear of someone do something peculiarly different from the way we know a person. To be frank, all of us are feelers one way or another. We wear masks, pretend to be someone we are not only to lose our genuine taste in life at the end of the day. We don’t have real friends, our relationships deteriorate and we lose our drive in life. Amidst these consequences, why are we still willing to fool the world and ourselves? Why do people wear masks? On what I understand, the reason why people wear a façade is because of the fear of destruction. The gripping fear that if one doesn’t meet a set of standards, mostly societal standards, one’s “value” is looked down thus the feeling of isolation and the unending tug between insanity and self destruction. In other words, you either follow the status quo or “die”. Join the masses or be an outcast. We create masks, an unreal reality, a play or an image for the sake of self preservation. Particularly for us Filipinos, our natural yearning of belongingness and being wanted makes us want to find that place at the cost of our integrity. Let’s just say you follow every rule in society’s book of standards and values. What, then, does that makes you?
The fear of self destruction of self destruction is so powerful that it makes people cut off from the very source of life for a temporary relief from the world’s eyes only to destroy themselves at the end. As Dale Wimbrow, writer of ‘ The Guy in the Glass’, best said it “We may fool the world down the pathways of life and get pats on your back as you pass by, but your final reward will be heartaches and tears if you’ve cheated the man in the glass.” You may buy the latest clothes, know the lingo or the talk of the town and network with the coolest people, creating an identity out of these things only to lose yourself on the process thus the inevitable result of self destruction probably in the form of bad habits, isolation or even suicide. We wear masks because of the fear of not being acceptable to the human eye. That is the problem. We find our value on what is external, on what is eroded by termites. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Despite all the transformation that’s happening in this ever changing world, there were, are and will always be these universal laws and principle that guide these changes, our living. A lot of these principles are tested time and again by people who have succeeded and significant all throughout history. And there are those who have fallen because of their violations of these eternal laws. If one measures himself with these guidelines, he then has nothing to prove, fear or lose because these principles are eternal. If I am to sum up these universal laws and principles into one word, it would be: God. Why conform ourselves to the fallible, temporal standards of men when there’s that divine force that is capable of liberating us from the nothingness we have become? By being true to oneself and to others base on these higher forms of reality, one lives the fullness of life. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Everything falls into the right places the moment one wakes up in the morning and even beyond the time we sleep forever. By being true, we liberate not only ourselves but others to be also true because truly, the truth behind the human person is that he is good and thus aspires for what is best. One lives in a beautiful, eternally full life. Then again, ‘ka feeler ba nako’ to say all these things. Yet, I’m just saying. I’ll end this by walking my talk. How about you?
Indeed, Life is easier with Truth.
Stop pretending. Just do it!
The fear of self destruction of self destruction is so powerful that it makes people cut off from the very source of life for a temporary relief from the world’s eyes only to destroy themselves at the end. As Dale Wimbrow, writer of ‘ The Guy in the Glass’, best said it “We may fool the world down the pathways of life and get pats on your back as you pass by, but your final reward will be heartaches and tears if you’ve cheated the man in the glass.” You may buy the latest clothes, know the lingo or the talk of the town and network with the coolest people, creating an identity out of these things only to lose yourself on the process thus the inevitable result of self destruction probably in the form of bad habits, isolation or even suicide. We wear masks because of the fear of not being acceptable to the human eye. That is the problem. We find our value on what is external, on what is eroded by termites. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Despite all the transformation that’s happening in this ever changing world, there were, are and will always be these universal laws and principle that guide these changes, our living. A lot of these principles are tested time and again by people who have succeeded and significant all throughout history. And there are those who have fallen because of their violations of these eternal laws. If one measures himself with these guidelines, he then has nothing to prove, fear or lose because these principles are eternal. If I am to sum up these universal laws and principles into one word, it would be: God. Why conform ourselves to the fallible, temporal standards of men when there’s that divine force that is capable of liberating us from the nothingness we have become? By being true to oneself and to others base on these higher forms of reality, one lives the fullness of life. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Everything falls into the right places the moment one wakes up in the morning and even beyond the time we sleep forever. By being true, we liberate not only ourselves but others to be also true because truly, the truth behind the human person is that he is good and thus aspires for what is best. One lives in a beautiful, eternally full life. Then again, ‘ka feeler ba nako’ to say all these things. Yet, I’m just saying. I’ll end this by walking my talk. How about you?
Indeed, Life is easier with Truth.
Stop pretending. Just do it!
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