Fake people. Everyone despises them, right? They are lying back stabbing cheats. The kind of people we don't associate ourselves with and definitely the kind of people we would never be. We are honest people true to ourselves and not pretending to be anyone else, aren't we.
That's what I've always thought anyway since secondary school introduced me to the social hierarchy with different groups of people. The things we don't like are the lies and the unreliability of who they really are. After wondering about this for a while it really made me think about myself. I came to the conclusion that I am a fake person.
I don't act like myself, I lie and I'll say one thing to one person and a completely different thing to another. However none of these actions end up hurting anybody else and they are not intended to. I'm not attacking, I'm defending. I'm protecting myself and others. I'm protecting myself from judgement and rejection and others from burdening them with my negative feelings. I'm pretending to be the person people want me to be because I'm not being that, then I'm being the person people don't want me to be. I need to act like I'm happy and chilled. I need to laugh at jokes, get excited about things 'I should be excited about' and I need to enjoy things 'I should enjoy'. I need to be smiley and sociable and I need to look like I'm coping. That's what people expect and honestly I'm too afraid to be anything else, expect those times when I'm not even able to fake it which seem to be becoming more frequent
Really its a lot healthier not to fake it. It's like walking on a broken leg. It makes it so much worse. We need to learn to limp. To show others that something is wrong and we are needing some extra help whether that's just on a bad day or for a while, it depends how bad the break is. However bad the break is you deserve help and support and what I'm really trying to get at ACCEPTANCE.
It is scary to take off the mask and drop the act in front of everyone but try at least your close friends and family, a diary or even a blog ;) because faking is exhausting and incredibly difficult to keep up.
Society makes us feel stuck. Fakers are hated but 100% honestly is followed by 100% judgement. What do you do? I say do what is best for you and your life. Even though I don't want to admit it, opening up to people is your best bet at long term contentment. Find someone you can be you around and do just that...be you, no faking because if you fake for too long you lose sight of how you really are and that's something you just don't want to lose.
Hopefully I organised my crazy thoughts to make some can of sense and to have some kind of meaning to you. Thank you for reading.
Lots of Love,
Becca xx






