Stay true
There is this, to my mind at least, beautiful expression in English: 'stay true'. It means to be faithful to one's belief, to one's group of people, to oneself. Although still connected to the concept of truthfulness, it is more an issue of self-honesty than of not telling lies to others. The opposite of 'staying true' is not 'fibbing', 'lying' or 'deceiving'. Rather, it is 'losing yourself.' Horribly revealing is the fact that, in most cases, people have a hard time staying true to themselves. It is not often a situation that arises out of conscious deviousness (which, contrarily, would actually be staying true to the individual's dishonest character), it is more a matter of forgetfulness. We forget who we truly are. How does such a thing happen? How can we forget who we are, forget ourselves? I guess it is an offshoot of the mixture between curiosity and desire: once we discover something we want, we become so embroi...