NAKED

We are all born naked, but can we live naked?

Can we take off all our masks, our pretences, our roles and our disguises so we experience our nakedness? The nakedness of the moment, of experience, of life?

But there is an innate contradiction in life. The act of being human, growing up, becoming an adult, society’s norms and expectations… tends to move us away from the natural, naked potential we all have. 

To become human, we tend to become a specific human, in a specific family, school, culture, language with a set of political, economic and religious norms. 

Then as a grown-up human we do a specific job, in a specific business with a specific role. We have specific relationships, we specific sorts of people, who we find in specific places at specific times in our lives. 

We become very attached to our identity and often have a wardrobe of identities that we wear for different occasions.

But by becoming aware of our own innate nakedness, we can see beyond our disguises, our limited definitions of ourself, we can see the vastness of possibility, the vastness of our potential.

We can see we are all always able to grow, evolve, change and that is at the heart of being human.

We can see we are all naked…

#culture #society #mindfulness