"Who are you?"

You wrote something in exam, read it again, felt like it was perfectly fine and came back home. The next day when you read the same answer, you saw a bunch of silly mistakes and wondered what was wrong with you? Sounds familiar?

That's how your mind plays with you. It tricks you into reading something which is in your mind, not what you write. It tricks you into seeing something which wasn't in your answer, but in your thoughts.

Now analyze your character, what do you see? An imperfect person yet ' somehow better than most of the people '? That again is your mind. Its tricking you into seeing some imaginary character which is in your mind, not you. A character which is righteous, ethical and spiritually above average humans, and a character which is ' at least better from heart ' .

The point is that our mind plays with us in such a subtle way that even we don't realize how evil, cocky, and sometimes toxic we are just because we ' don't have it in our heart ' . Believe me nobody is evil from the inside, nobody wants to be toxic, judge or mean.

So who is your true self? The imaginary character which lives in your soul or the one which is being portrayed by your actions, words and personality? Obviously the second one. Nobody else knows the inner self of yours, and there's no point in knowing that until it's being reflected by your outer character. So next time don't try to convince yourself by saying that ' at least I don't have anything in my heart ' because nobody does. The reason why someone is toxic is because they show it, not because they have it in their hearts. Next time analyze yourself according to what your outer personality is. You are what you show, not what you think you are.