Facade.

''O wad some power the giftie gie us, tae see oursel's as ithers see us''.

Burns is an old dead man, but he sure knows his stuff. The line above is particularly true.
When is it we start to see others as they truly are? when they don't see it themselves.

Think about it ; when you're a kid, everything is much easier. the only thing you needed to worry about was what colour of crayon to pick from the box. Now it's all changed - we're told to act how other folk think we should.

We are far more concerned about what folk do, how we are seen by others and change how we are to fit in. ''Fit in'' - ahaha. I for one, will not be getting sucked into conformity. Dress the same,talk the same, put on an accent, pretend to like things you don't, hide things you do like - WHY? So that some bastard won't think you're strange?

Stand up for what you like, don't do what people expect of you, don't get put into that box. The more that people try and make you the same as others in this Herd, the more you'll go mental when it doesn't work.

Also, when do folk learn to lie and mistreat others? Is it learnt from parents, or who? There just seems to be this one point where everyone changes. I for one, really don't like it. ''what happened to the good old days? they got absolutely fucked like the rest of them.''
It's good to have folk you can trust and be You around though. It keeps you Grounded in a way.

And I don't really care if you think I'm strange, I ain't gonna change.