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~*Friday, 4 September 2009*~
**Everyone wears 'masks'. Society and people in general prefer stability, especially in friends and other people. Thus they treat other people given the other person's first impression.
That's why first impression are so important. When we first meet someone, we remember how he or she reacts and whenever we see them again, we react to them in the same way as we first did to them and thus predict that they will do the same. And the other person obligingly reacts in the same way to how we react to them and thus this cycle continues.
Some say people never change and are always the same. I beg to differ. One person's thoughts are as diverse as the people there are. However, in front of other people, espically friends, they put on a mask. This mask make them always seem the same, siiince the first impression they made on other people and that's why other people like them (unless, of course, if one had made a bad impression, the mask he or she wears make them unpopular)
However, there is more then one form of this mask. When one has beeon embarrassed or hurt in some way and they do not want other people's concern, they put on a mask of 'indifference'. Over time, the 'wound' heals, and due to the person who seemed indifferent to what had happened or had laughed it off. Also, when a person goes up to the stage, sometimes he or she dons on a mask, so as to hide their stage fright and thus seems to be a confident person on stage, of who we have to appulaud, thanks to their courage. After all, courage is not a lack of fear, but an ability to overcome it.
Over time, when one wears a mask for too long, they themselves cannot differenciate themselves from the mask or that that the mask has become a part of them. But really, what is this mask but a part of oneself? I let you decide.**
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