The way we all look: Human

I am going to start off this blog post with my answer to the question asked in the previous post: What if everyone would stop being so rude? My answer, of which you all have a right to disagree with, is "Odi et Amo". This little latin phrase translates to "I hate and I love (you)". I see this as a good answer, that if people were not disrespectful to everyone else, there would be no love, no happiness in our society. Now onto this post's question.
I was looking through my friend list on facebook, when I noticed how people tend to choose the picture of themselves that they think looks the best. Why do people want to be seen as they look after many layers of makeup, when the face that people fall in love with is not tainted by any paints or colours? I see people as who they want to be, not who they are, and many of those people will never be that dream person. So they throw up an act, a face that represents that dream.
I, myself have done this, just look at my background image on my facebook profile. I present a completely different side of me then what you would see were you to meet me. But even in meeting me, you still see a dream form of myself. I say this not because of how I dress out, but by how I act. I act like I am above. I am not.
I am just another guy, who has all these faces, and many more. But why do I want to be represented by these faces? I think it is because I want to escape who I am. I want to be the one to do something big, when I am hiding my biggest success. I hide myself. And every day, people see me as this man who acts smart, but like a fool. And every day, they miss out on the true me, the one I now think everyone should see.
I will take a while to get rid of my pretense, but I need to do it, I need to be seen as who I am, not as who I wanted to be. We all need to gain confidence in ourselves, the confidence only you can give yourself. The confidence to be who you were born to be.
But that's what I think. What do YOU think?