I have all these wires and I feel I’m never myself, I’m just each wire at different times daily. A wire for work, a wire for family, a wire for close friends, a wire for social circles, a wire for the seasons, a wire for socializing, a wire for feeling, a wire for food, a wire for drinking, a wire for relationships, a wire for lust, a wire for movies and tv shows, a wire for listening to music, a wire for leaving my apartment each day. The only time I don’t have a wire is when I’m alone, in silence, with a pen and my thoughts. Everyone says be your authentic self but they mean just the part they want to see, we are zapped and controlled by these wires. The trends make us insecure, the expectations bleed stress from our brains and what we are told to be makes us questions are authenticity. We end up gaslighting ourselves because the wire is who controls, we get caught off guard when we have emotion. Every wire is a script and all it does is hide who we are.