Wearing a Mask

Have you ever gone somewhere in a mask or costume? Its kind of fun to act like somone or something else and have people guessing at who it us underneath. But when you try to talk to a friend or loved one or someone important and you're wearing that mask, it doesn't go so well. You have to take the mask off to reveal yourself so they understand what you were talking about and who it is in there.

You can't go through life wearing a mask. You have to be your genuine self so that you and everyone else knows who you are and what you are all about. If you constantly wear the same mask or you change masks depending on who you are with, you will forget who you are as a person,and your only identtity will become the mask you are currently wearing. When you meet new people they will think your mask is the actual person and you will have them fooled until the day you take it off, or it falls off accidentally, and then thier shock and surprise will turn into an inability to trust you becuase you were not honest and genuine, you were acting. A mask is only for people who want to act like someone else, you cannot be yourself if you wear a mask.

Remember that a mask can be fun for a short time, but you need to take it off. Acting is better left to people who get paid for it. And even then, they have to learn to take off thier masks. The late Heath Ledger said he struggled with the amount of acting he did for the Joker role in Batman, and in the end that role hurt him more than anything else. Lets take a lesson from that story and remember that a mask only hurts you and the people closest to you when you leave it on too long.