can you really fake it??

if we ask ourself a question.. "am i proud to be 'me' " ?
i think 9 on 10 times the answer would be an instantaneous "yes, i surely am"..
OK.. accepted.. then why do we go around faking ourselves???.. And now the reply would be.. "no, we donot "..

REALLY?????...

if that's not so, then why do we all need an approval from the people around us for almost everything?.. why is it that deep down we want to be accepted.. and to seek this acceptance we are ready to mould ourselves, bend our rules, accept the unacceptable, do what we despise , and finally be what we are not..

i wanna ask WHY??..

is it so important to gel into the group or the team or the environment or whatever words we use for the same , that we forget the real "me".. just start reflecting whats around us.. walk around as mirrors.. now again we want to deny this.. but i don't think its thats easy to brush it away..

give it a thought, most of us think we cant mix two groups of friends.. you would prefer not being with your college and work friends together.. and you would give 20 different arguements for the same.. 'they are different people', 'they won't be comfortable', 'both the sets would feel out of place', blah blah blah!!!

naaaaa... the real reason is 'you are two different characters in front of them', ' you wont be comfortable', 'you would feel out of place'.. its you, not them...
the simple reason being, how can you play two different roles at the same time?.. how can you be the person you are for your college friends and the person you are for your work friends, both at the same time.. yes.. its two different people..

so now where's the "me", we begun with?.. which "me" were we proud of ?.. where did we lose that "me" ??...

the big question is whom are we trying to fool?.. yes you can easily fake it in front of the whole world.. rather you can master this art to the extend that one day you'll be a naturalat it..

but can you really fake it to the person who stares back from the mirror?..