Monday, July 13, 2009
Topic: Masks
Everyone has many different masks for different situations. People would rather let them selves be identified by these masks just to fit in with a certain group. I agree with Yu-xi where individualism is important yet i also think people have a tendency to live by with the mask and make it their identity by throwing away their true self. I wonder why people need masks and how anyone can be certain whether or not anyone is their true self or someone created just so that they will be liked. I wonder if it is people's weakness that makes us lie to our selves and others just to fit in. These masks develop at an early age and do not seem to ever go away in adult life but expand. Is it ever possible to lose yourself in a mask and not remember or can not go back to who you were before the mask? And if this is possible is this how people would rather live then go about being themselves. Maybe masks are a defense for rejection. They know their personality is something that people won't like and so they change just to make friends. Kind of like a two sided person. Where you can sit back behind the mask and watch what ever you do but in a sense be detached at the same time cause it's not really you, just the thing you created, your defense against the world.
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I agree that everyone wears a mask, and that it's their own way of coping with with the differences with individuals.
Is it ever possible to lose yourself in a mask and not remember or can not go back to who you were before the mask? And if this is possible is this how people would rather live then go about being themselves."- I think that it is certainly possible. Based on the people that I've known throughout most of my life, I can see that people do tend to lose who they originally were. They start off by hanging around a different group of people and then slowly drift away through their masks. Then again, what is "being themselves?" One way to look at it, is that these masks conceal the true identities of individuals. Another way to look at it, is that these masks are their identities, and that hiding who they are is who they are.
Thought-provoking -
echoes Yu-Xi's question about the difficulty of identifying the "real" self behind the "fake" mask.
think you're right that most people fear that their "real" self would be unloved.
andy's point is smart - that maybe (at least in some cases) hiding who they are is who they are. and maybe that's true, to a large degree, for many of us.
could you think out some activities, readings, field trips, movies, etc to go with this? (vanilla sky? the mask?)
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