Authenticity … Real or Imagined?

His lady was getting a little jealous but it was just a peck on the cheek!!

It has been a month since I have been gone and two months ince I have been homeless although it feels like since last September that I have really been on a journey.  This journey of self-discovery.  How is it some people are so clear about what they want and what their purpose is.

Apparently cute and cuddly but can be moody and mean

Most important to me is to live my life authentically.  To live my truth and be ture to who I am both the bright side and the dark side.  the dark side to me is the most interesting and complex.  I believe it is the truest self, the most human.  We expend such energy trying to hide it, to pretend it isn’t there.  I say you have to embrace it, be honest about it’s existence and only then will it cease to have as much power.

"I can't hear you, I can't hear you" ... a gorilla struggles as another bigger gorilla prepares to attack!!

Being authentic is something you can just feel and sense in people.  Inauthenticity often has a feel of sugar coating, being false, like you aren’t really interacting with the real person, only a facsimile they are choosing to give to the world.

I think it is possible, if you go long enough not being authentic with yourself, you can lose site of yourself as you start believing your facsimile is your true self.  Then I think you can find yourself on a slippery slope.  So the question then becomes how do we know if we are being authentic?