So Piaget said that all the world's a stage, and we have a face that we wear onstage and a face that we have offstage. The problem that a lot of people have with his theory is: if we're playing the "daughter", the "employee", or the "husband", then who are we when we're done playing those characters? Are none of those people the real you?
I think the world is a little kid who likes fish, and you are the aquarium. The face you put on is the filter. You are always the aquarium, but if your filter sucks, the kid gets grossed out by the muck that builds up inside the tank. The trouble is to filter well, and to let people see what's most essential about you. The nasty habits, the laziness, jealousy, selfishness, insecurity, etc. that might be taken as "well that's who I am"--it's what's blocking the kid from seeing the fish because there is so much algae and grossness.
A filter that doesn't function is useless. A filter that overdoes what it's supposed to do is also terrible. Imagine a filter that also deposits chlorine and bleach into a tank periodically. It kills the fish, makes it an uninhabitable sort of place to be in.
Functioning filters are important.
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