MASKS

WE ALL WEAR MASKS..

..recently i had the pleasure of attending a gorgeous girlfriends 'masquerade party'..

..it was such an amazing night..

..i was looking at some photos last night and it prompted me to think about..

..the masks we wear..

.. regardless of who we are and at different times of our lives..we all wear masks..

..people wear masks to conceal their true identity..hide their emotions..expose their true feelings..

sometimes they are worn to gain or secure friendships..

..we may even wear a mask because we do not want people to know the truth about us..
..most people wear masks of 'composure' to protect themselves from judgement or to feel safe..

..we can mask a smile and be hurting on the inside..we may not want to do it..but we feel it's the right thing to do..

..we mask the ability to make others think we will gladly do something..

..when we really don't want to do it..

..some people even wear multiple masks and switch them for different people in different situations..you can see through those masks..the person who is lovely one minute and totally indifferent the next..

we shouldn't hide truth behind the mask..

..we can learn to live with the masks people wear..

..and it's one thing to wear a mask in front of your boss..your clients..your colleagues..strangers..

..but we need to remove our masks in front of our loved ones..

..even if it means hurting them..

..it's far better to hurt for a moment than keep on that mask for an eternity..
..love is not faking your identity for someone..we don't want people to love the mask..but the real person underneath..

..after all it's hard work keeping that mask on for a long time x