Acting is sinking your own personality in order that you may mimic another’s. Masquerading is borrowing another’s personality, putting on the mask of another’s features, dress, experiences, emotions, and thereby enhancing your own… Youth, and especially shy Youth, is strongly possessed by the instinctive desire to masquerade.
[…]Masquerading bores Crabbed Age. Why?
Simply because the impulse to imaginative self-enhancement dies down as soon as liberty to live is granted… Crabbed Age is busy living, not rehearsing, and living, if sometimes less amusing, is infinitely more absorbing. It takes so much out of you.
Author: Jane Ellen Harrison
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
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