I had a chance to think abit more on the subject on my way home last night/this morning...
The whole concept of masks is a subject that fascinates me a lot...
I was thinking on why would someone wear a mask.
I mean the fitting in reason is valid enough, but almost everyone always grows out of the stage of wanting to fit in with a group of people, everyone grows up and becomes comfortable with what type of person he or she is and finds a group that he fits into...
so if you are yourself...why would you want to wear a mask and hide your feelings, thoughts and emotions?
I think i came up with one of the many reasons...and I find it's very valid for me...I can obviously not speak for others.
We are encouraged repeatedly to un-mask...and yet...even among friends...especially among friends...when we do let our emotions show...
when we actually act sad, angry whatever...
we are ridiculed or labeled...seriously think about it...act your feelings and people will accuse you of being mopey, or over-reactive...I obviously include myslef in the group of people who may act unkindly towards someone opening up himself...
then I thought to myself...so whenever we wear a mask...it to hide something because of others...
no
I recalled a few times when something was wrong, and all I could do was think and worry about it...
Saturday evening arrives...and a mask drops, covering our worries from ourselves...the train of thought "bugger it for tonight...i wanna have fun" and there we would have hid our worries from our self, and in so doing obviously from others too...
"look around there's another mask behind you"
2 comments:
i read it twice over, and i must say, extremely interesting! yep, makes sense...
I love reading ur "thinking" blogs! XD keep it up!
masks dont hide one from others only, because when you look at a mirror whilst wearing a mask one doesnt see himself. sometimes maska are a method of coping with the fact that we have sometings in our character we particularly dont like and are ashamed of. wats funny is that sometimes i prefer blaming others for 'making' me wear a mask to fit in rather than realize that i want to hide from myself.
demasking one's self i believe isnt about others its abt the person himself. i try to demask myself because when i am and i know my true self with all the good and bad i am happy and at peace even if sometimes the price is loneliness but i belive that being true to yourself gives you a joy.
On a christian level God knwoingly gave you the character that He did he doesnt want you to throw away His van Gogh or his Michelangelo He wwants you to accept who you are and love Him for creating someone so wonderful
at least thats where i got to in my psycho - spiritual -philosophical state of mind hehe
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