The masks we put on! By: Omar Black

Halloween comes once a year but some people wear masks all year long. How do we wear masks because everyday some people hide who they truly are. Some people refuse to reveal themselves to the world so they put on a persona and refuse to be their actual selves because they don't believe they'll ever truly be accepted for whatever reason. They deem themselves as an outcast or they've heard they're weird for too long they just decide to change to fit in. Some people decide to put a mask on from day one and it gets to the point where they lose themselves. They actually become the false person they've been pretending to be for so long. Some people just don't want people to know the true them because the true them may never be accepted. They could be a stripper, a murderer, a compulsive liar, an undercover cop whatever it is they're something they know a lot of people around them and in general won't accept. We put masks on daily to be nice to the people we can't stand being nice to. We put on masks so we don't lie to those we love because that truth will shatter them. The masks we put on can prevent pain and it can cause tremendous pain if that truth were to be ever revealed. We all live in ways that others may find unacceptable. However we use masks that'll atleast make us appear as better people than we truly are because the Lord knows the masks we put on sometimes is worth it because it prevents pain. The masks we put on is always for a reason good or bad, wrong or right it's what we do!