Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to talk about the roles you play and how to drop them. You wear a mask for so long you forget who you were beneath it.

A quote by Alan Moore.

Have you noticed yet that people tend to live their life acting out roles?

Acting out roles that are obvious to everyone around them but are opaque to themselves.

And of course when I talk about people, I'm talking about you.

You're doing this, you're playing a role without knowing or being conscious of the fact that you're playing this role and that this role is actually a contrivance.

So what I want to help you to do is to see that in yourself and possibly to start to move towards dropping it.

Just outright dropping it so that you can live more authentically.

So what do I mean by roles?

Well, I'm going to give you a long list of many examples of roles,

so you'll have a very clear idea,

but in the abstract, what I mean by a role is sort of like this costume that you put on this character that you are that you

Somehow, probably in your childhood or your teenage years or early adulthood

and now you're wearing this costume and you've confused this costume for your authentic personality.

In the same way that you have goth kids, you remember the goth kids in high school? Maybe you were one of them, hopefully not, but you probably know that stereo is that right?

So we got the goth kids. Now these goth kids they do their goth thing they put on their goth makeup and they wear their goth clothes and they think that they're cool and whatever they're different or that they're unique. But when you look at it it just seems so

contrived it seems so silly and pointless it seems like a bunch of apes at the

zoo who I've been rummaging through some you know circus

costumes and have put them on and now they're walking around in a

tuxedo it's like an ape walking around in a tuxedo thinking that it's now

this hot shot ape when really it's as

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