People or Papers?

Going to Beirut I kept reminding myself that I needed to get my Turkish passport. That's the precious one that doesn't require a visa to Lebanon.
    Then I said “Oh, I'll be needing the Italian too.” To enter into Italy. I might have just used my Italian ID for that but got my passport as well. Just in case.
    And good thing I did. I had not thought I'd be needing the Italian passport to exit as well. You see, nowadays there are these machine readable passports. You show it to a machine and walk through the immigration control, it's a breeze. Otherwise there's a long que.

I couldn't help but think... I'm the same person. But I have to think about which of my identities suit the country or the authority I'll be dealing with and present one or the other accordingly. Even though I'm not cheating, they're driving me to hypocrisy, forcing me into a double identity.

I am the same person. But it's not who you are, it's the papers you carry that are respected.