Is it even possible to maintain singular image? We are different when we are at market place, in our work zone, in the community and while surviving in the public domain. To a larger extent we are closer to the original when we are with our families and amongst our loved ones, but most appropriate I would even say exact, while we are alone and when nobody watches us. If we notice it becomes easy to hurt our families and loved ones again and again and yet earn a good name from strangers. After a point it doesn’t matter to us what our families and loved ones think about us as long as we are angels to the outsiders.
When one’s dual life gets extreme they can be diagnosed having split personality, commonly know as Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder which is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. We all operate as individual beings not really accountable to anyone and that forces us to keep changing our images every now and then based on how we want to.
Stephen Covey author of many best-selling books remarks, “We now live in a world that values personal freedom and independence more than responsibility and interdependence. Social life is being fractured. Families and individuals are becoming increasingly isolated. Escape from responsibility and accountability is available everywhere.” If our devotion to God and all our good works are not shaping us to be a responsible human being then by default, we will keep shifting our position and trying to put up a great show by leading a double life.
Most of the time words don’t matter, our spirituality doesn’t matter, our commitments don’t always matter we just spill few words on a particular situation not thinking too deeply. Our images get marred so often but it really doesn’t matter. You and I may give wickedness smooth-sounding names, but we cannot alter its offensive nature and character in the sight of God. It is easy to cheat people and create a good impression about oneself but we forget that we don’t escape God’s notice. The battle of maintaining a singular image can be overwhelming if it is not shaped by God. In the Bible, God promises to heal our wretchedness and transform us to be a person of worth.
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