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- From: kdc5072@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.D. Colagio)
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- Subject: Re: Yet another thing that I wrote...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.203519.19202@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:35:19 GMT
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- S. Arrowsmith writes:
- ->In article <1992Nov16.182959.29244@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kdc5072@ultb.rit.edu () writes:
- ->>*hugs* to all...."Let It Snow, Let it snow, let it snow..."
- ->>
- ->> MASKS
- ->>
- ->> [ ... good stuff deleted to save bandwidth ... ]
- ->>
- ->> So my question is this:
- ->>
- ->> Are you wearing a mask that someone wants you to wear?
- ->>
- ->Yes.
- ->
- ->Curiously enough, this is something I've been going over a lot in
- ->counselling recently. It's all very well to recognise that it is
- ->a mask you present to the world -- but after all the years showing
- ->nothing else, can you really be sure that there's anything left
- ->inside? That there is a real you -- something more than the masks
- ->presented for the benefit of others? Would you dare to try and
- ->remove the masks if you believed/knew this to be the case (I can't)?
- ->
- Ahhh...but by recognizing that you are wearing a mask, that shows that
- there is something inside, and that something is the 'you' as you see
- you...(did I lose ya there? almost lost me...)
-
- The masks are not always there to benefit others. Sometimes they are
- there to make life easier on the wearer. And if this is the case, there
- may be reasons not to remove them.
-
- And to answer your question, I would dare (and have) removed my masks
- because I know that is not the case, at least not for me.
-
- Good luck with lots of *hugs*!
-
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