Chapter 4 - Mask

Before I start, I'd like to wish everyone that has passed the new year's timeline, and is currently in 2009. If you're not, don't worry, New Year's only to mark certain times for Historians' easy keeping. And also for science dudes to play with their astronomy about planets flying around the sun.

Mask

When you are born, you are given a face. That face shows your personality, and your characteristic. When you are a kid, you would have gotten a mask somehow, probably because of your parent's strictness and your friend's acceptance.
When you grow older, you'd have plenty of masks. Each for different events and functions, and as you return to the safety of your own room, you take it off and you show your face to the 4 walls that covers you.

No, I am not talking about masks as in the physical type of masks. I'm talking about a fake personality, the you that is not you.

Have you ever been to a place outside your home, and you feel that you are not yourself. You tend to put on masks to suit the environment, telling everyone;

"Hey, I'm this type of person. I'm strong, I'm funny, and I'm cool. I hate talking about non-ethical stuff and I don't think of you of any evil."

You put on a mask to show your parents you're loyal and obedient. You put on mask in front of your friends to show that you are strong, personality wise, and intelligent. You want to be accepted by the many friends that you hang around with.

Over the years, these masks that you put on regularly to gain favor of everyone around you, will eventually merge with your real face. Your fake personality will one day take over you and it will be your real face. Think plastic surgery.

Well, why are you so sure that your friends would like your mask more than your face? I believe that people would respect you more, if you don't hold back on showing your real self. If you have something to say aloud, say it. No one is holding you back, if people abandon you because of your real you, why would you even get around with them? Aren't they too just selfish people that think of themselves more than others?

You need to show people who you really are. And be proud of who you are, not who you want to be. It's like taking the personality of your friend, and overlaying it over your own. In the end, you are your friend. The things you do and the things you say represents him.

Humans would naturally strive for originality, something their own, something self made. You are you, you are original, it is what makes you, you. You don't exist here to be someone else. It's copyright, as a joke.

If you believe in resolutions, you could probably put this in mind for 2009.