We are all hiding something.
October 19, 2009
I think some of us are very fragile people, pretending to be big and strong and some of us are very brave people, pretending to be small and helpless. Only I’m not sure which one I am.
I feel exactly the same! Sometimes I’m the first and sometimes the other.
No doubt that I´m in the second group. I really try to be helpless.
sometimes i feel both all at once – both fragile and brave; both child and adult.
I think the test for that would be one’s actions when “the going gets tough,” as they say. When something unexpected happens – what are your true colors? If you reflect on that, I think you’ll find out.
perhaps the first?
But I need to protect some people that I think I need to be…
Perhaps the second?
Just during the tantrum..
Just found your blog. I love it!
I think I’d have to say I’m mostly fragile pretending to be strong, but I am working on making pretend into reality.
A form of both I suppose. They both exist within me.
I just don’t know when I’ll ever find the right balance.
Has anyone ever found it, to be honest?
I think I’m a little of both. Maybe most people are too?
I think I’m the first, but maybe trying to be brave, at some point, will make be brave?
The photograph is so lovely, dear Skye, you have the best eye for Small Things.
I am usually the first, but sometimes the second. When you have children, sometimes you have to be strong when you really feel weak.
That’s an interesting way to think of things. I always thought I fell into the first category, but not I think actually maybe I’m the second, and it was about time I showed everyone how brave I really am.
We are all made of fragile things. Childhood, fantasies, romance, magic. I think when you allow yourself to lose those fragile things that you are made of, you show yourself to be fragile. The hollowness that inhabits you because of those losses makes you easily broken. Those that are strong clung to the fragile things inside of them with tenacity, they don’t let others take their dreams, identity, memory, and they protect and nurture those that are fragile on the inside.
I am brave, but meekness is a natural camouflage.
Although either way, fragile or brave I’d rather not have to pretend.
I can safely say I am neither.
I am strong and I act the part.
I’ve never known who I really am. I’m only starting to discover myself.
Interesting question, I oscillate between the two. Mostly I fall into fragile under strong. I am a very shy person who can do a reasonable impression of a not shy person when required.
I love that. I think I’m a mixture of both. Some days I’m one, and some days the other.
I think I am fragile, but if my feelings get hurt, I don’t break. I stand up again and smile into the other’s face. That makes me strong.
So I am neither of these groups?
Lovely greetings from LillysGarden,
Lilly :D
that is so true. i see it everywhere, like at school. people hiding their real selves with the “cool” image just so no one can break the fragile person inside
thankyou for your email by the way:)
So true, Skye, so very true … I think I do a bit of both, as well. I wish I knew who was the ‘real’ me, if either.
I’d say you are none of those…
If I had to say whom you are I’d say you’re like that phrase said: “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the small voice at the end of the day saying I’ll try again tomorrow…”
You’re the kind of people who writes us beautiful stories and toughs, to makes smile everyday… You make me strong inside, but sure I don’t know you enough to say how you really are…
by the way have a nice day, whenever you read this…
Oh wow, and wow.
♥
I dont know who I am!
I think I would prefer to be the latter but i am struggling with the world right now so I could just be no one or nothing!
Although I do normally like being nothing
Haha, Im pretending to be helpless but I really am brave ;D
In my dreams, I always rescue everyone in a heroic manner but in RL everyone keeps telling me how shy I am =.= ~sighh~
I pondered this over. I want to say you are the latter of the two, but my heart says your are the first group. I have always been the second group. I act so weak and so tiny, but then…. Do I really have the courage inside.
From a kids show “Either he has a whole lot of bravery, or a whole lot of stupid.”
i think i might be both? despite the fact that it doesn’t seem very logical.
This audio (near the end) might be of interest to you and the little person inside:
http://www.dicksummer.net/podcast/18_DeerJohnTheCrockAndSecretVoice.mp3
I actually had that same conversation with my mom like 3 days ago.. I also don’t know in which case I fit in…
Loved your blog by the way!
I love this post… it is powerfully simple and profound…