I was scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed this week and looking a the "friends" posts there. I was taken by all the people that had been part of different times of my life. There were friends I had known since I was a kid, family, work friends, friends from different churches I have attended, work colleagues, the list goes on.
You have no idea how many people who touch over your life. Facebook just has a way of putting it into one place. I thought about some of the friends from my high school days meeting friends I have now and if they would be talking about the same person. Am I different than I was then? Assuredly in some ways, yes. But I wonder if there are similarities they would find interesting, even all these years later.
I look at all the people there and wonder, do they really know me? Do they know the REAL me? Do they want to know the REAL me?
I ponder these things at great length and wonder if people would still like me if they knew the REAL me. I always feel like I have a mask on, sometimes even with those closest to me. I put on a mask for whoever I'm with. Don't get me wrong, I have certain principles and beliefs that don't change no matter who I'm with. But in some way I am a chameleon.
So, my goal this year it to try to be the same with everyone. I think I'm doing better with this, because frankly, its too exhausting the other way!
