One hundred selves.

One hundred selves. 

Ulises Vargas 

November 29, 2025. 

Liars. All of us are liars. 

Don’t try to lie and say that you’re not a liar, either. 

Let me ask you:

does everyone in your life know the same stories as each other?

Do they all know the same person, or have you shaped their perspective of you? 

Does your mother know the travesties you’ve committed? 

Does your lover know your daydreams and fantasies? 

Do your colleagues know how you party? 

No–no to all of those questions. 

Yet, each one of them supposedly knows you. 

Each one of them is wrong, 

because you lie to each one of them. 

They all think that they have you solved;

they all think that they know the real you. 

To one hundred people, 

there are one hundred versions of yourself. 

Are any of them real?

Is it really the same person who makes those one hundred selves, 

or is each self a whole different person? 

Regardless, how, then, can one be truthful and forthcoming
from one hundred different selves,

trying to merge the many identities 

of a shapeshifter with multiple personalities?

There is a way, and there is only one:

admit that you are a liar. 

Liars. All of us are liars. 

Don’t try to lie and say that you’re not a liar, either. 

Admit that you are a liar.