Appearances

I wish I felt beautiful all the time

I wish I could trust you with my life

I wish I could live, dance, just be, without a care

But to be human is to be self-conscious

So I pretend I am all these… and wonder if anyone sees through the mask.

Life is about appearances. It's about the phone you have, the people you hang around, the person you're dating, the car you're driving, where you live… but life begins when we stop making it about them, and start making it about you. Are you doing things for them, or for you? Do you want to look a certain way for you, or is it for them?

Sometimes we feel comfortable hiding our true selves from everyone else. The problem is that we can't hide from ourselves. We know what we're going through. We know what haunts us.

And when we make mistakes, we want to take the easy way out. We want to pretend it's not there;