Authenticity

- be a little more you, and a lot less them.

The process by which we leave behind our authentic self and become people that we are not, the people we are influenced by- by acquiring beliefs, values, and behaviours from those around us- is known as enculturation. And as we leave our true selves, morphing into our social selves, a void behind to develop and gradually forms. We leave our original, authentic nature and assume the false smirk of personality.