Every morning we wake up as a “raw version” of ourselves – without perfect makeup, expensive clothes and without our social mask … We don’t hide behind anything, we’re just ourselves – our real version. But right after we leave our house, a lot of us start wearing their masks. We change our masks in different situations and we hide ourselves behind it. Because it’s easier. We’re not so vulnerable. Nobody can judge us – because we act the same way as everyone else. Like copies. We go with the crowd. And never stand out.
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There are people who are funny, optimistic, friendly and talkative when they’re in a group of their closest friends. But in the society they rather blend in with the crowd. They hide into a corner, put on a mask of a quiet featureless person and they don’t express themselves at all. They’re scared of rejection. They’re afraid that they wouldn’t be good enough so they rather don’t join the others. They know this is not the real version of themselves, but it’s too hard to change it. Because when you get use to wearing your mask, it’s not so easy to leave it at home one day.
And some people are the complete opposite. They act like tough guys, emotionless and act like they have never heard about caring of others. They act haughty, cold, arrogant and they don’t express their emotions, they never let anyone to get to know them. Altough when you know them, maybe they’re absolutely different. Maybe they’re kind, willing, friendly and you feel amazing with them and you’d love to spend time with him. But in the society it’s like this person disappear. People around them wear this mask too and they want to be accepted. They don’t want to be differnet, they don’t want to look weak. They wanna look like a heroes, like dudes. And so they act like someone else to fit in.
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Sundejte si na chvíli svoji masku. Nepřemýšlejte, jestli se to “hodí” nebo co si o vás ostatní budou myslet. Je to těžké jen tak ze dne na den změnit. Ale když se to tak vezme, co je vlastně jednodušší než říkat, to co si myslíte a dělat, to co chcete dělat .. ?
Usually there are much better versions of ourselves behind these masks. We’re just too afraid to what “would people think”. Altough it’s so useless. Because if we want people to stop finding our mistakes and start to like us for what we are in real, we have to let them see “what we are in real”. We can’t hold on some social measures which are so hard to fit in. On the other side, when you’re just yourself you can’t actually make a mistake. Because it’s natural. There are no rules. If you keep acting like somebody else, hold on this role, the people who you don’t like to be surrouned by will stuck on you. Because you will attract people by your mask not by yourself. And meanwhile there will be people, who could be our soulmates, but we can’t find it out – because we don’t let them see who we are.
Postpone your mask for a while. Forget about if it’s “suitable” or what people will think. It’s hard to change it in one day. But if you think about it, in fact .. what’s easier than saying what you think and doing what you want to do .. ?
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