It's very interesting. There are two kinds of people: the kind that looks out over the panorama of life and sees all that they need to become and that needs to be done; then, there's the other kind of person, who, when looking out over the panorama of life, decides that becoming and doing are not nearly as important as other people looking at them and thinking that they have become and done.

What this means, is that, there are people in this world who have decided that manipulating the minds of those around them into holding certain opinions about them, is far easier than actually being the person they wish to be seen as.

"Why bother with actually being faithful, if I can just make everyone around me think that I am?"; "Why bother living graciously if I can simply cause those around me to think that I am gracious?"; "Why go through the trouble of being transparent when it's easier to manipulate people's opinions of me into thinking I am transparent and honest?"

For some people, manipulation is the easier and more effective route: living for the eyes of others instead of for their own pair of eyes looking back at them in the mirror. Why bother with the cumbersome task of finding true love when you can make other people think you've found it? Why stress over being happy in a relationship when it's way too easy to just make other people think it's a happy relationship?

Then there's the other kind of person living directly out of their heart: what you see is what you get! To live from the heart, to become and to mould, to relinquish and to sail, to love madly and to let go truly. A life worth breathing for! A life seen in one's own reflection in their own mirror. Whether in heartache or in happiness; all is transparent! This is the life void of shame.

It's ironic. Because they say that we are put to shame when others see us as less favourable. Au contraire! The inability to live transparently and from the heart is the result of shame. You are already ashamed, born into this world ashamed, afraid of not living to the expectations of others. And if you're not careful, you're going to die that way too! Dying as someone who never became, never did, never felt, never really lived.