Yukiko Amagi (P4) 08/12
Your true self. But what does that mean? When who you are is lost in the face of who everyone wants you to be? A dutiful daughter, a future employer, a lady of grace. A friend. When who you are is divided in between the faces you wear for other people, what is left to be you?
And you kind of want to run away just to escape it. Leave all the expectations placed on you behind, and find out what parts are really you amongst all the masks you have created for everyone else. Burn them away, and see the truth amongst the flames.
But you're not going to do that. That would be selfish, useless, and you are not a useless person. So you swallow that, angrily, selflessly, until it is passively smothered under your tongue.
But fire can not be contained forever, so when it comes for you, you look away. Your friend is here, and you do not wish her to see you like this.
So you lie.
But this time, it can not be contained.
And only when you admit it, can you try to be free.