Handmaiden

The blues is an art of ambiguity,
an assertion of the irrepressibly human
over all circumstance, whether created
by others or by one's own human failing.
—Ralph Ellison

Authentic and ambiguity go together. On the surface they appear as odd companions, but I feel comfortable with the link.

When Polonius says to Hamlet ,to thine own self be true, he's warning him to refrain from deceiving himself.

When I am attempting to be who I am—not looking around for a different role, I am most comfortable with ambiguity. Uncertainty and doubt release me to consider how complex life becomes if I wrestle with my responses to differing circumstances.

I think that being authentic means settling into ambiguity.