Masks

Masks. They’re probably the most intricate and delicate, yet least complex and hard as stone lies that the human race has come up with. A mask is defined as a safety net; something for people to hide behind when they don’t want others to see their true selves. It can be as simple as someone hiding the fact that their hurt because they didn’t get invited to a party, or it can be as complex as someone hiding a deep depression that’d been harboring for years.

Masks have different levels of dexterity, also. They can be as see through as a clear plastic bag, or as impenetrable as an army tank. Everybody wears a mask – however, everyone neither wears them forever nor has worn one forever. There are certain people that we can be around, certain situations, or certain locations that trigger a persons’ mask being put up, or being taken down. There are also people who don’t bother with putting their masks up. They simply have no reason to.

These people are considered ‘social outcasts’. The reason that they’re labeled as outcasts is because they don’t bother to hide themselves behind fake smiles and false happiness. They wear their feelings on their sleeves. If they are happy, they show it. And if they are depressed, they let others know through their actions. You will always be able to tell people who don’t wear masks and people who do apart from each other.

Personally, I wear many a mask. But I also think that people who don’t wear masks are that much stronger than the people who do. It shows that they know who they are, wholly, and truly, and are not afraid to show the rest. To me, they are society, and we are the outcasts. It would be truly beneficial if the people who didn’t wear a mask weren’t categorized as ‘different’ because they show themselves-are true to themselves- and know how to focus on who they really are, and not who they want to be seen as – that would be in an ideal world. In an ideal world, masks wouldn’t be needed. But this is the real world, where society is all but a game, and the winner is the one who wears his mask the best.