Certifiably Authentic

I love reality tv...anyone who knows me knows I am addicted to all things realityesque.  I have given all reality shows at least one watch...sad I know...try to stay with me and not judge *smile*.


Lately some of these shows are highlighting characteristics that "normal" people typically keep "hidden" - masked up if you will.  I am the first to say someone is showing "too much" or certifiable (my word for crazy) for doing so.


But what if we all had our daily lives, emotions, interactions taped?  What would we look like to others?  Better question, what if our quiet moments, inner thoughts, the deep down stuff that we tend to hide from everyone, were taped and on display, what would we look like to ourselves?  What would our real "label" be?  Would we appear to others/ourselves what we believe ourselves to be?  Or would the mask we wear be exposed?


I  know it is a leap to connect reality tv to the mask we wear but hey I am making it *shoulder shrug*.  Stay with me...I'm gonna make it live as my pastor use to say.  


These people, for better or worst, are putting themselves out there subject to all the things that come along with being vulnerable...being authentic.


NOW I am not saying these shows are the most authentic, but there is something to be said about being "naked" before the world...YIKES.


BUT no matter whether a person's intention when being exposed is to grow or not...IT WILL HAPPEN.  They have been "exposed" to themselves via the entire viewing world.  


No growth, no life purpose, no movement will occur if one is not naked.  Let's think about the basic seed.  It MUST shed it's protective shell in order for the fruit, flower, food (I love alliteration) to be produced.  It is exposed, even for a brief time, to the elements and animals/insects that might take it for a meal or snack.  It sustains and attracts what it needs to sustain to become what it was meant to become. Simple, but if you think about it very relevant to those of us who wear masks...some of us who wear many mask.  


Let's get back to your personal reality show...are you hiding, wearing a mask or two or three?  Are you truly being authentically who you are?  Let's get real...do you have "issues" that you are covering up as to not deal or to "trick" people into loving/valuing you?  OR are you "dimming your light" in order to conform to what society/people think you should be? AND/OR are you attracting life draining people into your space and not sure WHY? 


Have you been wearing your mask(s) so long that if you took them off or watched your reality video, you wouldn't even recognize the person you see?


In order for us to be the people we were intended to be (who we are purposed to be) we must be who we are right now!  Recognizing our issues, allows for us to work on those issues TRULY and HONESTLY!  Realizing that we are living someone else's reality of us, allows us to set boundaries with or  lovingly omit those people from our space.  Understanding that our lack of authenticity may be attracting the wrong energies (situations and people) into our lives, allows us to be accountable for how people treat us and what happens to us.


The Universe/God returns to us what we give to the world.  If you are not giving your authentic self and working from that true foundation, you can't expect the same in return.


Authenticity is REQUIRED for growth/life and for attracting life giving, authentic energies.  


I welcome those of you who have gone/going through or worked/working through being authentic to the world to share resources (websites, books, articles scriptures, quotes etc) that assisted/is assisting you.