I never liked that word, now floating in every pop-psychology and self-help conversation as truth. Life isn’t a stage. Not a play.
When you’re being polite when you’d rather be dismissive, or when you say yes when you’d rather say no, that’s you. Not some character apart from you that took over. When you shut down and don’t know why, when you really want to connect, to meet—it’s not performing. It’s you.
