Tonight, while listening to Bloom 06's The Old Field Of Angels and hearing the words:

Take me back to that place
where you only have one face
you and your mistakes

I got to thinking: Is there really a place "where you only have one face, you and your mistakes?", so to speak.

In other words: 

Aren't we all double-faced, whether we admit it or not?

hermselfThe reasoning is simple: we're all humans. Therefore we all make mistakes that we are not necessarily proud of sharing. Now what makes us double-faced, in this regard, is when we attempt to hide the fact that we're guilty of such mistakes, and acting as if we've never done them.

I'm sure we can all think of such mistakes. They're not the easy ones we can get away with. They're the big ones that we'd get blamed or labeled if we reveal them. So instead, we opt to hide them, hiding behind the second mask that pretty much says, "hey don't look at me, I don't know anything about that"!.

But wait, that's a good thing!

Yes. It's good to be double-faced. In fact, you can be x-faced and still be doing us all a favor.

To explain why, let's a recall an episode of That 70's Show when Kitty is shocked when she learns that Fez, who she considers a son, is dating an elder woman, who happens to be a (despised) friend of hers. When she tries to break them off, he revolts back in her face, telling her: "you're not my mother".

Towards the end of the episode, Fez comes to apologize to Kitty telling her that he doesn't know what to do because he wants her approval, but he also wants to do things to women that would shock her. Kitty understands, and tells him that he needs to do what any good son would do: lie to her! It took him a while to get the concept, but when he did, he stood up and told her that he is not going to go have sex with Marcia on her washing machine. Kitty tells him to have fun at the movies!

So you're saying that lying is good?

Yes.

I would argue that as long as it's done to spare the feelings of your loved ones, lying to hide the mistakes that you're ashamed of is a good thing, as long as you don't make it a habit and lie your life through.

Essentially, this means hiding yourself behind that second mask that conceals your darker inner side that you don't want the other people to see. You want to live up to the image they have in mind for you and you don't want to disappoint them or, worse yet, send them to complete state of depression about being lied to.

Conclusion

With all this talk about how bad it is to be double-faced, when you do it for the purpose of not letting the people who love you down, it's really not that bad!

So now tell me what you think:

Is anybody ever in a place where they only have one face, them and their mistakes?

 

 

* Image by Esther_G