Everyone wears a mask.

Whether it is a mask of sadness, pain, laughter, or (most common) happiness, we all put on one just to hide the person we really are on the inside. Our faults, our feelings, our insecurities, our weaknesses, are all hiding behind this mask for it really is easier to fake what we are feeling than to try and explain our problems to someone who won’t ever understands. With that mask, we pretend to be someone we’re not. We restrain ourselves from being our own individual for we are afraid of what others would think once the masks is gone. This mask prevents us from acting like our true self and will not be taken off unless we’re surrounded by the people closest to us. In a way, the masks we wear are a type of self-protection. It protects us from getting hurt, feeling excluded, and feeling like we don’t belong just because we’re different.

(via sc-yaah)