"The face behind"
For this sketch my first idea was the sadness behind the mask. This state makes me more vulnerable since I have a hard time accepting it and is more difficult share it with others.
I usually tell myself that wearing a mask is not something that I do but in reality it is not obvious.Often the state behind this is anger. It's easier than to confess my sadness.
Because sadness often has deep roots that it's not always easy to dig.
Sadness is often linked to loneliness and to the question to love ourselves, something that we talk about it a lot but we don't know necessarily how to realize it. Something that is hard to see .
At the opposite of loneliness are the others: parents, companions or husbands/wifes, friends, children, etc.
Whenever we expect others to make us "less alone" we make a mistake because it can't work like that, it is an illusion.
Of course, others are important as well as relationships, loves, exchanges. But can we depend on that? We often confuse these things (me first) .
In the end, it is not because we have other people in our lives that we can forget to love ourselves, to be faithful to ourselves, to know our essence and to make our journey.
The others are those that can walk with us but our path remains our way. If they go away (temporarily or forever) can we abandon our journey, our essence and move away from ourselves until we get lost ?
And if these people follow their path close to ours but they are further behind or haead ? Should we prevent ourselves from continuing?
To bring ourselves closer to our true essence and to accept the state in which we are actually in is part of a not-obvious process, and yet it is the first thing that stands up when we deal with others and with the rest of world. And for me this is quite fundamental.
If we wait for the discomfort to end, we have not dug enough in ourselves and we forget to find out and ask ourselves what we are looking for outside.
Sadness can be used to make us understand this, to move forward. This process is not yet easy for me this is where all this thinking process got started . Behind it is in fact me.
To be continued ...
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