God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
— William Shakespeare
STILLNESS
— William Shakespeare
STILLNESS
Something was given to you and something else is being assembled on top of it, and the second is the part worth watching. Whether you call the first nature, inheritance or grace, it arrived without your input. The made version is the arrangement of manner, tone and presentation you use in order to be received a certain way, and there is nothing wrong with having one until it stops resembling anything underneath.
Notice the situations where you cannot recognise your own voice. Ask what the performance is protecting, and whether it is still needed or has simply hardened into habit.
Which version of your face do strangers meet first?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.