the Need to Express

I feel expressing oneself is very important if you want to live a healthy life. I admire babies very much for one particular reason – they express themselves so well without worrying about what others will say – they cry their hearts out, they make the funniest sounds – gurgling and chattering and they don’t care when and where they poop! Animals express themselves too – the birds peck and screech to call its female bird friend; a dog that is leashed at a home barks at a female dog…oops I mean bitch, when it passes by.
Then there are people who will do anything and strange things to express themselves. I read somewhere that Van Gogh cut off his ear as an expression of love!! And there are people who write poems; others who draw; some like me cook and write; some even shave their heads to express. The monks and priests express through the power of prayers and then there are people who protests by marching with posters or going in groups shouting. Music is a tool for expressing oneself too and dancing…..an expression of carefree nature.
Expression and the need to express is within me and I cannot suppress it. Because I express, sometimes I get into trouble with loved ones and friends because they cannot accept my frankness.
But then, when you cannot accept the truth, are you not a fake?