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Wear Your Mask
Take it off and what remains?
We all hope for better times and reminisce on simpler times in our lives when we were children and the most we had to worry about was whether our parents would make our best meal or buy that dream toy.
Then school comes along with the social expectations and new faces, we begin to encounter a variety of characters that will influence of lives for the better or worse. Pressure slowly builds on us with age and we imagine and aspire to life as an adult.
When adulthood comes, the loneliness and stress of independence hits, and you try to isolate yourself and encounter even more strange and sometimes beneficial characters. You don't even remember who you are anymore? Your parents telling you what you should be, your friends living different lives, unrealistic realities advertised to you on television, everything clashing at once in your newly self-aware mind, struggling for control.
Life eventually becomes an endless cycle of fear, loss, repair, healing, redemption, hope and confusion.
So you pick masks to survive and grow in your environment. Without the masks you are naked and your insecurities, fears and scars are left open to scrutiny.
