Good afternoon everyone,
i stummbled across this the other day and figured i would share it with the nice folk here. lets just say some of us may sense what is being said and others well it seems it may take a while longer

enjoy folks
Pause For Thought
With Simon Cohen
After a long bank holiday weekend, many of us would have shuddered at the prospect of going back to work.
In my previous job selling advertising space, the end of the weekend filled me with anxiety.
On the face of it, with the salary, position and awards I received, you would have thought that returning back to work would have been cool. But that was the problem, it was a face, a mask. I felt like I couldn't really be myself, and started behaving like someone else, completely out of sync with my inner self.
Many of us put on masks in work mode. In surreal subconscious scenes, we act out parts we think we're supposed to, in an attempt to fit in, to be liked and accepted. But does anyone know who we really are?
The persona I portrayed at work led to an internal conflict. I felt torn inside by the lack of consistency between my personal and professional values and identity. So I quit, not knowing what the next move was, and gave myself 30 days notice to find myself again.
It occurred to me that it is our subjectivity that makes us who we really are. In work or play, when we are asked to put our opinions or personal experience to one side, we are actually being handed a mask. We are being asked to be less human, less of who we are. When we feel like we can't express ourselves fully, is it any wonder millions are working for the weekends?!
Perhaps it's time to be you again. As the sufi Muslim poet Rumi said 'You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?'
When we liberate ourselves from our work-mode masks and give ourselves permission to be whole, we learn to fly again. And Monday mornings aren't half as daunting.
peace & love gaz