Gregor Vukasinovič
Identity
What would a chameleon say if you ask it what color it is? If it knows what it's talking about, it might just say, "Yes."
In a similar way, many people seem to base their identity primarily on what everybody around displays. Which has more in common with camouflage than with identity. It's a safety precaution just like a chameleon changing its color, but it's still just a mask they wear. They've put it on at one point, probably because they had to, and then forgot it's there. It's not that they could take it off anyway, so they figured they might as well get used to it. And try not to think of it too much, because that way only leads to anguish and isolation.
Identity
What would a chameleon say if you ask it what color it is? If it knows what it's talking about, it might just say, "Yes."
In a similar way, many people seem to base their identity primarily on what everybody around displays. Which has more in common with camouflage than with identity. It's a safety precaution just like a chameleon changing its color, but it's still just a mask they wear. They've put it on at one point, probably because they had to, and then forgot it's there. It's not that they could take it off anyway, so they figured they might as well get used to it. And try not to think of it too much, because that way only leads to anguish and isolation.