Have you ever gotten the feeling of someone acting feigned with their reactions, words, smile, or sincerity? I can totally say that we all have those people around us. When they just appear we sense the oddity in the air, even though there’s no reason. But the actual question is “What’s the reason behind the case?”.
Since childhood, we all had idols or role models to take a leaf out of their book. But there must be a borderline which separates this from imitating. Some of the people can’t balance this and the consequences come out of being fake.
Character building starts at home at an early age. A child’s first role models are their parents mostly. The child makes his or her own observations to use while creating a character according to the attitudes of the family towards him or her. A few years later, “the friend factor” comes out with the child starts to socialize. At this point, the personality gets in shape with the child’s surroundings. It can change over the years of course, but parents should be following the progress really closely. Parents have the responsibility for it because their child will also affect another child with their personality and behaviors as well.
Someone’s impact on another may last for years as negatively or maybe positively. Even their perspective of the world will be affected by them and this is kind of a risky situation because it may end with they’re not being themselves actually. Unfortunately, today’s teenagers are not being themselves and they’re not even aware of it. They mostly choose a person unconsciously from their friend circle to take their characteristic features as an example for building a personality. For a long or maybe short period of time they’re being like this person. From my point of view, the biggest reason behind it is insecurities. They decide on a person due to the person’s level in the hierarchy. The brain prefers personalities that are already accepted by others because insecurities that come from the past make them think that they are not enough to be valued. This is kind of a cycle that some of us can’t get rid of for the rest of our lives and this cycle creates new masquerades which hide the actual qualities behind them.
At the end of the day, it is getting harder for us to recognize the real people at a masquerade ball. We are at a point where we don’t even know who we can trust or believe. I guess that’s the reason why people are born with trust issues nowadays because you’ll never be sure about a person that you only have seen their eyes.