A filter on your face is fine. A filter on your whole personality gets tiring to maintain.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Editing a photo is a small, bounded thing. Editing who you are in front of people is a job that never ends, because you have to remember the version you gave each group and keep it running. The tiredness is not moral, it is practical, since upkeep is expensive. What gets protected is usually the belief that the plain version would not be enough.

Let one small true thing through this week, the music you actually like or the thing you do not understand. Watch who stays interested. You do not owe everybody openness, just one or two places with nothing to keep up.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which version of your personality is exhausting to keep up?

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