I left off the last blog by saying that if everyone could be them self there would be no need for stereo types and people could live in peace. Anything is possible with an open mind. Being yourself may not be being anything or anyone at all but a person who thinks openly. I can say that is true for my self to a degree. It doesn’t really boil down to anything big really, just little things. Like if someone were to ask me “wha do you like to do? what are your interests?” My response would be I dont know, what do you like to do? Then Ill tell you if I can get my head around doing that. Sharing those moments with you. I am not committed to anything. Maybe that is my biggest flaw, but it could also be my greatest strength. with no commitments, I leave myself open to experience all the things that life has to offer. That is the strength. The flaw is finding anyone who will experience them with you. The flaw is that everyone has a commitment of some kind. Even I do, whether it be school, bills, kids, work or whatever, there is something that we are obligated to maintain a certain persona for. The flaw is that our outer image always masks the image of who we are on the inside. We keep things so bottled up for the sake of our appearence, our status in life that we forget whats it like to just be a person. Personally, the stress’ of trying to be devoted to only thing, one persona is to difficult and makes everything repetative. The clothes I wear dont make me who I am. They dont make you who you are unless you allow them to. If you base everything in your life souly on what you posses then you are lost. You refuse to see people for who they are. The good ones and the bad. Evil can conceal itself in the best of things. Kind of the concept of that movie “The Devil Wears Prada.” I never saw it, but the title says it all. There is a band with the same name with pretty good music too by the way. I used to wear a chain with a big cross on it. It made me feel like righteous. Then I remembered what the cross signifies and the man who died on it. What he died for, who he died for. I am not fit to carry a cross. Whether you believe in him or not, he carried that cross and endured that punishment for our sake. Kind of disrespectful to me now to think I could carry my own sins. I am not even willing to die for all of my own, let alone every person on the planets. At least that is the story told and again, believer non-believer, its still a very noble one. A worthy hero on every level in my opinion beyond the eternal life part. So if you follow the works of this man, you will see that his biggest message was not to get to cought up in the world and posessions. Ive touched on this before, its more of a moral guidline when you take heaven and hell out of it. Think about it. You buy a shirt for $20 and it costs 25 cents to make. The laborer in China was paid 50 cents an hour to make 1000 in a day. A scenario that we all here about and people work so tirelessly to stop. The problem is, we all still go and buy that $20 shirt. If we forced these injustices to stop then there would be no shirts to buy, although I think most americans have enough shirts to last them a lifetime. I know I do. Micheal Jackson sang that song “man in the Mirror”, I get what he was trying to say now. It is the only song I like by Micheal too. A shame that he died with all the contreversy surrounding him. A shame that a single moment of clarity by one of the most influential and powerful people in history went unnoticed and changed nothing. Persona, image, not even the king of pop could change the man in the mirror. He was the king of pop, his duty was not to help the world for a better cause, it was to entertain a greedy wealthy overabundant fat cow of a nation. Those words however still live on. Just like the words from a man who died on a cross still live. How we interperate those words as a means for humanity will only lead to change, peace and prosperity. As I write this, I can only think that being yourself is finally seeing yourself and being able to change the things that make you unrecognizable.  Seeing yourself beyond the masks and costumes that make us who we ought not to be.