A Mask is anything that disguises or conceals something or someone.
The life of a teenager is full of masks...some of colour...some of pretense...some of delusion and many of lies so much so that one starts believing in these mask to such an extent that one loses their own identity or rather forgets it. And now that i come to think of it .......its the case with every single individual.....each person wears a mask...if not many then atleast one.....
MASK OF PRETENSE : we all for some weird reason pretend to be someone we definitely are not..... the first day of school...out of fear of being friendless we try to get everyone to like us which seems impossible simply because the others too wear masks....it takes a few years before our identities sink in and we actually know who we are and what we want and at that moment we once again don our masks...
MASK OF HYPOCRISY : The moment we come to know of what we want ....we try and hide it for fear of ostracism or even criticism....it seems stupid that its in our nature to want to be loved by everyone...sure saying this makes me a hypocrite for i too don many of these masks....but at least i question it publicly. we set standards for ourselves and other which most of the time seem ridiculous to so many and yet we do this as a part of our daily routine.
MASK OF APPEARANCES : leading an almost carefree life with two masks in our kitty we put on a third...that of appearances which suddenly become really important to us...as we try to conform to standards laid down by ourselves...we try to look different we try to be different and by the end we are so different that if we look int the mirror it takes us a few seconds to recognize who we truly are.
MASK OF IDENTITY : we change so much as people.. as individuals that what we wear masks of identity also sometimes globally called IDENTITY CRISIS!!...we mold ourselves so much that we forget the simple things .....the truth...the real us.... that we soon become exactly what our masks dictate..exactly what society dictates and accepts..we to become an accepted part of society become nothing more than puppets...controlled by societies whims and fancies ... by masked hypocrites..by masked pretences..by masked appearances ....the day we pass from life ...at one time there would be ashes at another bones and in our time there will be masks.....
The most hypocritical feature of this article is that i too wear masks ... I sit here and type these words hiding behind the two largest deceivers and creators of masks ....WORDS and THE INTERNET......
The life of a teenager is full of masks...some of colour...some of pretense...some of delusion and many of lies so much so that one starts believing in these mask to such an extent that one loses their own identity or rather forgets it. And now that i come to think of it .......its the case with every single individual.....each person wears a mask...if not many then atleast one.....
MASK OF PRETENSE : we all for some weird reason pretend to be someone we definitely are not..... the first day of school...out of fear of being friendless we try to get everyone to like us which seems impossible simply because the others too wear masks....it takes a few years before our identities sink in and we actually know who we are and what we want and at that moment we once again don our masks...
MASK OF HYPOCRISY : The moment we come to know of what we want ....we try and hide it for fear of ostracism or even criticism....it seems stupid that its in our nature to want to be loved by everyone...sure saying this makes me a hypocrite for i too don many of these masks....but at least i question it publicly. we set standards for ourselves and other which most of the time seem ridiculous to so many and yet we do this as a part of our daily routine.
MASK OF APPEARANCES : leading an almost carefree life with two masks in our kitty we put on a third...that of appearances which suddenly become really important to us...as we try to conform to standards laid down by ourselves...we try to look different we try to be different and by the end we are so different that if we look int the mirror it takes us a few seconds to recognize who we truly are.
MASK OF IDENTITY : we change so much as people.. as individuals that what we wear masks of identity also sometimes globally called IDENTITY CRISIS!!...we mold ourselves so much that we forget the simple things .....the truth...the real us.... that we soon become exactly what our masks dictate..exactly what society dictates and accepts..we to become an accepted part of society become nothing more than puppets...controlled by societies whims and fancies ... by masked hypocrites..by masked pretences..by masked appearances ....the day we pass from life ...at one time there would be ashes at another bones and in our time there will be masks.....
The most hypocritical feature of this article is that i too wear masks ... I sit here and type these words hiding behind the two largest deceivers and creators of masks ....WORDS and THE INTERNET......
very well written, yashasvini...!!!
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