Who am I

     Masks, don't be fooled by the face I wear, for I wear a thousand masks, And none of them are me.  Don't be fooled, for goodness sake, don't be fooled. I give you the impression that I'm secure, that confidence is my name and coolness is my game, And that I need no one.  But don't believe me. Beneath dwells the real me in confusion, in aloneness, in fear. That's why I create a mask to hide behind, to shield me from the glance that knows, But such a glance is precisely my salvation. That is, if it's followed by acceptance, if it's followed by love. It's the only thing that can liberate me from my own self-built prison walls. I'm afraid that deep down I'm nothing and that I'm just no good, And that you will reject me. And so begins the parade of masks. I idly chatter to you. I tell you everything that's really nothing and Nothing of what's everything, of what's crying within me. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I'm not saying. I'd really like to be genuine and spontaneous, and me. But you've got to help me. You've got to hold out your hand. Each time you're kind and gentle, and encouraging, Each time you try to understand because you really care, My heart begins to grow wings, feeble wings, but wings.With your sensitivity and sympathy, and your power of understanding, You alone can release me from my shallow world of uncertainty. It will not be easy for you. The nearer you approach me, The blinder I may strike back. But I'm told that Love is stronger than strong walls, And in this lies my only hope. Please try to beat down these walls with firm hands, But gentle hands, for a child is very sensitive. Who am I, you wonder. I am every man you meet, and also every woman that you meet, And I am you, also.


    My friends, we all wear different masks everyday. We wear almost thousands of it that we don't even know who we are. Well I'm only pointing out to YOU, to please help me remove this mask of mine. I need YOU, your LOVE, TIME,and UNDERSTANDING. To help me realize and understand the inner me .It's because, that I'm confused of who I am. I don't even know the real me. We always need someone to be there for us, to show us the meaning of life, to enjoy our limited time here on the third planet in the solar system, and to make our lives meaningful to us and to others as well. Learn to open the doors in your heart to everyone who seeks shelter from the storms, who needs comforting, who needs help. Give them a chance, for they will give it back whole heartedly in return and help you understand yourself. So to you all, love the ones who have been dear to you, I'm not talking only to YOU and the people around you, I'm also talking to YOU literally, by that I mean, to myself, yourself. We need also to love ourselves, give quality time for us, accept the fact that God made us this way, For it is a stepping stone to be a better YOU to others and to yourself. Now moving on. We can't live in this world alone, that's why God made man and women in the first place. We always need someone, we need God, our family, friends, loved ones, and relatives. Basically, I'm telling you that we all need help. Here's an interesting story to prove that all of us need help, even if we are the almost perfect person, the richest person, and the most popular person in the world.

---"Don't We All?"

  I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of work. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would consider a bum.

  From the looks of him, he had no car, no home, no clean clothes, and no money. There are times when you feel generous but there are other times that you just don't want to be bothered. This was one of those "don't want to be bothered times."

  "I hope he doesn't ask me for any money," I thought. He didn't. He came and sat on the curb in front of the bus stop but he didn't look like he could have enough money to even ride the bus.

  After a few minutes he spoke. "That's a very pretty car," he said. He was ragged but he had an air of dignity around him. His scraggly blond beard keeps more than his face warm. I said, "Thanks," and continued wiping off my car.

  He sat there quietly as I worked. The expected plea for money never came. As the silence between us widened something inside said, "Ask him if he needs any help." I was sure that he would say "Yes" but I held true to the inner voice. "Do you need any help?" I asked. He answered in three simple but profound words that I shall never forget. We often look for wisdom in great men and women. We expect it from those of higher learning and accomplishments.

  I expected nothing but an outstretched grimy hand. He spoke the three words that shook me. "Don't we all?" he said.

  I was feeling high and mighty, successful and important, above a bum in the street, until those three words hit me like a twelve gauge shotgun.

Don't we all?

  I needed help. Maybe not for bus fare or a place to sleep, but I needed help. I reached in my wallet and gave him not only enough for bus fare, but enough to get a warm meal and shelter for the day. Those three little words still ring true. No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too. No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help.

  Even if it's just a compliment, you can give that. You never know when you may see someone that appears to have it all. They are waiting on you to give them what they don't have. A different perspective on life, a glimpse at something beautiful, a respite from daily chaos that only you through a torn world can see. Maybe the man was just a homeless stranger wandering the streets. Maybe he was more than that.

  Maybe he was sent by a power that is great and wise, to minister to a soul too comfortable in themselves.

  Maybe God looked down, called an Angel, dressed him like a bum, then said, "Go minister to that man cleaning the car, that man needs help." Don't we all?-----

 So, friends, families, relatives and anybody out there , if ever somebody asked you if you need any help, just answer "Don't we all?"