Life’s Never Ending Masquerade

“There is a face that we hide,
Till the night time appears,
And what’s hiding inside,
Behind all of our fears,
Is our true self
Locked inside the façade!”
-- Jekyll and Hyde

Life is a never ending masquerade. Everyday, when we wake up, we pick out a mask in our closets, one that will hide our true selves from everyone. We go out and play our role, as if in a charade. People are trying to figure out if this is our true self, or if it is just the mask that we wear.
We do this same routine everyday and once the mask cracks or breaks, we go back to our closets and pick out a new one. We are afraid of what people would think if they found our true face, the one hidden behind the mask that we diligently put on day after day and take off every night before bed.
We begin to wonder… “Can they see through these layers of masks that I wear?” “Did they see my true self?” Then we begin to tell ourselves that we need to try harder, to be what people want us to be. We also put a wall between our friendships (relationships).
Our friends begin to feel untrusted or unhelpful. They begin to feel that they are not enough, that we want them to be something more; something more real to us. So, on go more masks and charades, trying to impress the world.
Soon we are worried that our friends are changing and falling away, we discover more masks and put those on. Our friends may be changing or falling away because they no longer feel that they know us or that we don’t need them anymore; we have found a new way to make it in the world. Right, like we can make it this way. They feel used and cheap; unwanted and unloved. No wonder they’d leave.
(**Not everyone wears a mask so this may not apply to you.**)

Oh yeah, I've decided (in light of this topic) that for my 18th birthday (which is still quite a ways away) that I'm going to through a masquerade ball/party type thing... It'll be interesting and fun. So start looking for masks or making them and stuff. Love you all!
Tiff