Layers...

I have thought about the word 'layers'.... It plays multiple roles in our lives ever since we are born... Even before we are born we are surrounded by layers of protection such as the thin amnionmembrane, amniotic fluid the list goes on... Even wonder why even though we are not physically wrapped in layers after we are born, we are mentally wrapping ourselves in it? That is why half of us do not know who ourselves really are. and what we really want... We conceal it without realising it until the time when we had unexpectedly exerted those qualities...It was when we are taken aback by it do we question ourselves..Did we really just did that? So mankind in some situations do do some unexpected decisions, choices or even actions... It is only a matter of time before we actually caught ourselves doing something that might not have crossed our minds before...

Expanding specific qualities such as the experties in certain talents and personal gifts is the way to uncover the layer of the unexpected, to test the endurance of one self in challenging the limits and breaking the records of mastering these qualities... This runs parrallel to a simple physical act of digging into the soil, you may realised that as you dig deeper into the earth, it exhibits different coloured soil where there might be plenty of minerals at the top which is usually rich in humus (such as those in my garden) or a reddish brown tone which looks a bit like clay where the soil is not fertile... You will come across ants which are a common sight, wriggly earthworms, black beatles, hairy mite like insects and occasional fat white grubs curl up and waiting for the time to come when they are able to metamorphose intp some unknown insects... It is interesting to uncover those layers of soil finding to the delight of some (like me) different forms of living creatures manifesting in it... Thus, the act of getting to know one self deeper is exciting but sometimes inevitable events are also dicovered as well... The more devious quaalities could also be discovered accidentally... What are we to do about that? We control it by disciplining ourselves, cautiously without letting the weak point get the better of us... there comes the usefulness of layering.... We put a layer on it, covering it up, leaving a lump at the top as a warning of never to trigger it again... But as humans, we may sometimes dig it up as the result of negligence and recklessness or even when a sudden emotional change... It means we take for granted of it...Thus the layering and unlayering process which goes on in a cycle...

Sometimes we choose to add more layering to something that we choose not to uncover but to bury it deeper...It may be due to the various reasons in life - for courtesy sake, exertion of personality, not to hurt but to protect, to hide, to forget and to give others the best of impressions...People add more layers than uncovering layers in most of their lifetime... as thoughts become plentiful and more complicated... Extra layering always occurs...the higher the social status is, the more layering they will put to cover the already existing layers... Thus, people suffocate themselves by putting too much layers over themselves... They even got lost in it... Those layering may helped certain creatures such as the caterpillar which goes through metamorphosis and turn into a dear butterfly, however, people stay the same except more wrinkles added towards twilight... All i could say important figures have so much of layering that they could never dig further to see the inside of them as they are busy adding more layers... a mistaken layering may need ten or more layerings thus, there is no them for them to look into themselves...
Of all the important things in the world, we need to unlayer the layers carefully and also ad them carefully to prevent the lost of the original self...