We Are What We Do
Barack Obama is facing a big problem: how to persuade his people
to vote for him for a second run? There is no doubt that a large sum of Americans
is losing faith in him, for they will never forget what Mr. Obama have pledged
before, however failed to carry out. Before long, this gentleman made a
shocking-world utterance that gay marriage should be legitimated in the United
States. Is it a begging for polls? I am not sure, but it is possible to be. People
who have lost faith in him said that, he is much more like a persuader rather
than a doer. Obama does have a gift in persuading and his “yes, we can” used to
impress me massively. However, we are what we do. His performance may be hard
to satisfy the majority.
Today my topic is not about this guy. Let us talk about this
saying: we are what we do.
First let us talk about masks. It is not an exaggeration if I
insist that people all have their masks in this sophisticated society, and for
some people, they may have several. We may all know how to disguise and how to
perform well before someone else, since we may want to implant a positive impression
in them. Sometimes this kind of disguising works. For example, to buy a girl’s
heart, a guy knows the importance of performing well and concealing his
shortcoming in front of her and sometimes this kind of concealing literally
works. I do not intend to blame it since it is we human beings’ intuition and sub-consciousness.
We are born to know it. What I want to say is no mask is abiding, or long
lasting. Sooner or later, your mask will put off and people will see your true face
ultimately. Like the preceding example I just mentioned, even the guy tries his
best to pretend to be good-tempered before his girl, he will expose his true
temple sooner or later. It is possible a marvelous mask may exert a perfect
first impression on others, yet others’ impression on you will ultimately
change after they witness what you have done.
So, is it means that we should be ourselves all the time and
throw our mask forever?
It depends.
For a politician, it is a must to have a positive mask in
front of media, whatever they really are. Take Bo Xilai as an example. In
China, he is more or less a hero. He is a hero who has fight against gangsters and
has made Chongqing province’s economy soaring dramatically. That is what we all
know about him: a hero, a good leader, a good husband and father, before his step
down. Now we know he is far more than a leader, he is also a schemer, a politician
with huge ambitions, and even a killer. However, he can never expose all these ambitions,
schemes, and scandals to us before he quit the screen. Someone failed to disguise
something, yet someone succeeded.
However, for a transcendent artist, it is impossible to hide
his emotions since emotions are inspirations of masterpieces. A sophisticated
artist can never work out an astounding masterpiece. That is true. For them, to
be themselves is necessary. They do not have masks.
It seems that I have shifted the topic, but never mind, this
is a blog and may be I am free to write something irrelevant⋯⋯
Let us come back to this topic now. What we do
literally defines ourselves. We cannot change others but we can change ourselves.
A former criminal can change others’ view towards him through his benefactions.
Also, a former hero can become a public enemy if he chooses a wrong way. What
we need to do is not pretending, but literally change something. We cannot
pretend to be good to win others’ trust and acknowledgment but we can change to
be better to obtain others’ respect. Never refuse change and just do it. We are
what we do and we are the one who defines ourselves.
Good opinion about DO! At first your title made me think of "We are what we eat" XD
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that we should define ourselves by our behaviours rather than words, but you seem to spend much paragraphs talking about masks... Well never mind, after all it is only a blog ^^
Actually I like the topic very much~