You might not even be aware how many times you change costumes and roles daily. The problem that many of us have is that we often forget, in the heat of our performances that we are not the actor with the costume.
Look around you. Notice the endless number of roles that you are forced to play daily. You are the actor in all these roles (father, mother, manager, sales assistant etc.) Remember that you are not the role, but the actor at any given moment that is playing the role that you conclude is expected from you. You hopefully go home and take off the costume that wore before you jump into bed. You do costume changes all day long. You might not even be aware how many times you change costumes and roles daily. The problem that many of us have is that we often forget, in the heat of our performances that we are not the actor with the costume. Some of us have been playing our various roles for so long that we became imprisoned by the character we play at any given moment. Do the following next time when you are swept away in one of your roles (dramas) and pause for a moment. Look around you and contemplate what you see in front of you. Ask yourself who is looking through your eyes at the props on the stage of your life that you observe in front of you. My friend you are not the many roles you play. You have been following the many examples programmed into you since early childhood. You may ask, “What or who am I if I am not the actor that is playing the many roles expected from me daily?” You are not the actor, your history or the various roles that you are playing daily. Your “real self” is the “observer” that is looking through your eyes as explained earlier. Your real self have been kept prisoner since early childhood by the ego based program in your head that I mentioned in earlier deliveries in this series. The real you who is relaxed, fun and always joyful were pushed aside by the fraudulent ego software that took over life. Many of us go through a whole lifetime and never wake discover this very important fact. We dance as fast as we can on the frantic tune called life and never discover this important and undisputable fact that society hid from us. This is how the “real you” became enslaved in the dungeon of your mind. Many feel in moments of sadness that there must be more to life. They unfortunately are never allowed enough time to contemplate the farce that many of us live, sometimes for decades. It is only in times of great crisis or deep personal loss that some of us dare to ask – “Is this all that there is to life?” We may for a few moments experience glimpses of our real self and feel its compassion, but usually go back to our old style of acting while we get back on the tread mill of life.
Rene