Everyone is acting. How well do you Know your Character?

At the speed at which we live today, it has become almost impossible to remember that we are all actors. For centuries, we have been inventing roles to give meaning to our lives. There are great actors, many bad ones, and most mortals are barely passable, with a few rare moments of genius, if they’re lucky.

Knowing and playing our primary character with confidence is the starting point for a solid and lasting sense of self. To my knowledge, there is no other strategy and everyone is differentiated by their own. It is the essential role of a parent to guide a child through this vital learning and assimilation. Since most humans reject this procedure, it is only natural that we have so many bad actors and, as a result, so much pain. No one is to blame, only ignorance could be brought to justice — but what’s the point?

By practicing this almost occult knowledge early enough, a new consciousness or a potential awakening could assert itself. Knowing that we are acting all the time, is more than enough to be comfortable and at ease in our own skin. Children have an immense appetite for playing. They instinctively know how to sharpen their characters from an early age. Later, they are forbidden their creative theatrics, because it is deemed necessary to move on to more serious things. From that point on, the school of bad actors…