Under the Popeye Rose by Corey Deitz

Author:Corey Deitz
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-09-10T23:00:00+00:00

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Ford was definitely living large.

He was masquerading as a person of means and was thoroughly enjoying the ruse.

Often, as part of the human condition, we live behind masks. Some we put on ourselves. Some we allow others to place on us. Sometimes our persona is by deliberate choice, sometimes by chance or circumstance.

His passport said “Ford” but, to the desk clerk he was “Kit.”

To the hotel staff, he was a generous American tourist, not the hapless clerk who spent his nights selling Beefy Bunce at a rundown convenience store.

To Dark Desires he was a nice guy from Ohio, far from the conniving white-collar criminal he had secretly become.

We project who we want to be and people perceive who they think we are. In life, people treat you the way you teach them to treat you. If you wear fear on your face, you’ll probably get bullied. If you project confidence, you’ll often earn respect. Your face - and to an equal degree - your body language, instructs the world who you are and how it should react.

But, if you lose control of your mask – an important aspect of your natural costume – or cede control of it to others, then you’re in trouble.

Do you see what I’m suggesting?

We are all subject to a type of human identity theft. Sometimes, we are the thief. Other times, we are what is stolen.

People profit from pretending to be someone else until they are finally found out. Yet, many of us casually steal identities throughout our lives to better fit who we would like to be. Think of the famous people who fall from grace after a scandal. For years, maybe decades, you think they are one kind of person and then they are finally exposed and it turns out they are someone – something – all together different. They simply wore a mask to hide what they did not want anyone to know.

We all wear masks.

Part of who you are has been lifted from others.

How often have you changed your clothing, behavior, manner of talking, hobbies, employment, or dozens of things about yourself because you wanted to emulate someone you looked up to or admired?

A celebrity?

A sports hero?

A rock star?

It doesn’t matter.

We are constantly stealing a hair style, makeup tip, fashion look, and any number of things because we liked the way someone else wore it or showed it and we simply wanted it to be part of us.

Or maybe we wanted to be part of them.

In the end we are all identity thieves to a point. The difference is most of us are not breaking the law. The petite thefts we pursue to enhance our personality or personas are an acceptable part of the social exchange the world has become comfortable with.

Few people are so secure as to be able to singularly create an identity that is totally original. We all consciously or unconsciously absorb bits and pieces of those we admire or adulate the most. That is the acceptable side of the spectrum of human identity theft.

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