Masks. We all must've used one at some point of our lives, maybe at a play in school or college, maybe to some Halloween/Masquerade party.
But the masks which I mention are the ones not visible on our person, the ones we wear either consciously or subconsciously to trick the people around us into thinking of us as someone/something which we are not.
Since time immemorial, people have been pretending to be something they are not. It is a subconscious reflex, thanks to the primitive and powerful survival instinct. Everyone is unconsciously trying to increase their odds of survival.
Not just people, even animals do the same. Only it's called 'Camouflage'. Since evolution did not find it necessary to provide us with masks such as skin that can change color, we had to resort to more subtle ones.
Let me suggest an interesting trick. This only needs patience and some amount of keen observation.
Next time you see a boy talking to an attractive girl (or vice versa) or a student talking to a teacher (or an employee talking to his superior), just count the number of times he laughs. Compare it with the number of times he/she laughs normally. I bet you will be surprised.
At one point of time, I used to look down on people who behave in this 'two-faced' manner. Now I realize, this is the way it is supposed to be. Lies and deception are something that is hard-wired into our system. The better you are at it, the further you will go.
The bible couldn't have been more wrong when it said: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Not even close. The meek shall be lucky to survive on this earth.
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Ur thots on masks is intriguing... we always hear ppl tryna being sm one dey rnt..... dunno y ppl involve in such futility...perhaps its survival....perhaps for acceptance by dose around us...fear of being ostracized by d ppl we love, ppl always don one mask or d odr......but den r masks essential .i hv always wondered.....is tryna being smone else for sake of keeping ppl around us happy, a good thng?.....and i m still wondering....coz evry tym i reach a conclusion its different dan my previous conlcusion......
Hmm ... was talking to my friend the other day and that's when this thought popped into my mind.
As someone rightly said, 'when people say "Be honest with me", what they actually mean is, "Confirm the high opinion that I have about myself"'.
You wish to live a happy life in this world with others, learn to be what they want you to be.
It's quite true, Everybody wears masks most of the time. Everybody is that hypocritical. It's very hard to be otherwise.
Here's an interesting thread of thought, I discovered, S'pose you dont like hypocrites. So you'd prefer if somebody was outright and frank about what he says, even if it's sumthing bad or critical about you. But if it's sumone very close you: it'd hurt you, and you think why he has to be so rude? why he does he have to say such things out loud? So, in a way you expect him to be hypocritical!
The mind works in outrageous ways, if you try to analyse it's methods, you're bound to go crazy!
Here's a quote i found. It's quite relevant to the topic:
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. -Andre Berthiaume, novelist (b. 1938)
@Neeraj: An impressive quote, buddy.
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