The Masks We Wear

“Whenever you meet someone for the first time, you’re not meeting the actual person. You’re meeting their representative.”  

- Xenocrates 

Do you realise that everybody’s got some motivation for being who they let you think they are? In fact, most of the people you’ve met aren’t really who they say they are. Sure, their names are correct 90% of the time, but the character they show you is just a facade. The very identity that we’ve come to know for most people is a manufactured avatar of the real person. Human beings haven’t really evolved as people. They’ve just developed more inventive masks to hide the true animals inside. As a result, almost everything that most people do is geared towards some level of misdirection. It is designed to hide that which sits beneath - the real animal they are often too ashamed for others to see. If that true person were to come out for everyone to see, the mask will bring that large majority of us to shame. Unfortunately for these people, I like many others, have learned how to see right through these masks. In this post, I’m going to show you what each mask is designed to hide.