In the last scenes of the movie La Casa De Papel ( Money Heist), Sergio Marquina (Professor) corners Tamayo and said in a standoff :
" I am a thief, son of a thief, brother of a thief and I hope someday to be the father of a thief "
Of course, Professor had previously insisted that the heists are his way of talking to his deceased father and brother until Lisbon, his enemy turned lover confronts him and asks him to face the facts that he does it for himself and not for anyone else. It was at this daring moment that he owns up his identity and said he is proud to be a thief no matter what anyone thinks.
For most of us, our lives have been a lie.
At first, we are lied to about everything we are told, we are fed beliefs, illusions instead of the hard truth. Then we grow up and own up to a life of lies.
Our whole lives is almost a lie, man. Look around you and observe deeply our lives are ruled by imagined realities and of these realities most of them are product of illusions, hardcoded into our DNA.
And as if living in a world full of lies is not enough, we begin to lie to ourselves. We lie to ourselves just to feel better but the results are horrible. Everything is clear , yet we pretend that we do not know the truth. We do not want to face the truth, we pitifully want to indulge in fake happiness, how dumb are we.
And like Karl Max said : we do not want to give up this our illusions, to be disillusioned from this lies is to call on us to think, act and fashion reality like a man.
Be Honest To Yourself
Above all, comrade.
Do not lie to yourself.
As Fyodor said in The Brothers Karamazov :
" The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect , he ceases to love. "
Comrade, you keep telling yourself you are not or never good at something , yet you never try. On the contrary, there is barely anything you cannot be good at ; jugging, math, cleaning, cooking. The thing is everything you are good at today you probably started terrible at it. You actually have to start and suck at them for a very long time , before becoming good at it.
Or you keep telling yourself that you do not regret anything, that you are unlucky, or that you do not have time, that no one loves you, that you don't have choice. These are just lies we tell ourselves at one point in life or the other.
These lies becomes the illusory sun which revolves around us until we do away with them.
He who lies to himself will lie and deceive others. To achieve inner peace, you must first of all be completely honest to yourself. Not lying to yourself will save you a lot of problems and regrets.