Don't Pretend, Be!
The flower blossom in the deep forest is as beautiful as it is in your garden. It need not be praised for its beauty to exist, it simply 'be' there. It does not need a description, nor it is there to define what beauty is. Its purpose is much deeper; to be as it is, pure!
When I see myself I feel I have put many layers on my being, disguised from what I actually am. It helps me to interact with you and follow the social norms. My layers are not exactly but similar to that of yours, may be little more or less than what you wear. I am little shy to put off all those layers in front of anyone, maybe because of my conditioned mind or understanding the fact that this is how it works here. Even while writing this I can feel some of the layers above me; but sometimes when I am alone I feel happy being naked, watching with awareness to those layers hanging around. There are moments I laugh thinking how foolish we are to act smart to gain something fictitious.
I am sure many of us realize about these layers we carry and not just that, we understand other carries it too. Being human is complex, difficult to be as pure as flower and exist naked fearlessly without any 'layers', it is not accepted as social norms.
Our conscious mind has limitations to perceive what is being portrayed but our subconscious mind is far more intelligent, it can feel those layers. Who we are behind the layers speaks much louder than what we say in words. Words are just like the pledge in magic tricks, the actual communication happens much deeper. Even YOUR presence in someone's imagination is a kind of communication YOU do with others. It's who you are, connects with others more than what you pretend to be.
I carry it like an actor and do what I must do, aware of who I am inside. I spell words like a magician and if you are a magician too, look into my eyes and you would know what secret we share beneath the layers.