''We live Our Life Through Many Phases and Also Faces.''
Daniel, I hope its not copyrighted. Ha ha.
Well, I quoted this, partly because I like the assonance in that header, and what counterparts it, in my opinion, would be the last word that drove me into writing this post today.
During my high-school year, I took part in the school drama team. It was actually established the year I first entered secondary school, and during the five-year time It had quite a glorious winning records, though. Well, I'm not going to talk about the team itself, but the other opponent teams I met during the drama competition. I had this notion, when first enrolled in drama, that the plays would mostly be revolving around fairytale like sappy damsel-in-distress cliches and a lot of props and backdrops. However, to my utmost surprise, the issues portrayed by the drama teams were much more real, solemn and reflective. One of which was 'The Masquerade'. The play started out as three friends tried to conceal their own secrets from each other, but ended up with revelation of truth and how they tried to cope up with their problems. The drama title was a witty one, figuratively it meant that the main characters were wearing masks, masked from the truth and yet they were friends. Sarcastic indeed.
Daniel's header is quite understandable for everyone. It is very true, isn't it? Our entity seems to get nebulous from time to time: we are different people to different people. Our personality become so volatile that it seems so impossible to be true to ourselves. But, why?
During my high-school year, I took part in the school drama team. It was actually established the year I first entered secondary school, and during the five-year time It had quite a glorious winning records, though. Well, I'm not going to talk about the team itself, but the other opponent teams I met during the drama competition. I had this notion, when first enrolled in drama, that the plays would mostly be revolving around fairytale like sappy damsel-in-distress cliches and a lot of props and backdrops. However, to my utmost surprise, the issues portrayed by the drama teams were much more real, solemn and reflective. One of which was 'The Masquerade'. The play started out as three friends tried to conceal their own secrets from each other, but ended up with revelation of truth and how they tried to cope up with their problems. The drama title was a witty one, figuratively it meant that the main characters were wearing masks, masked from the truth and yet they were friends. Sarcastic indeed.
Daniel's header is quite understandable for everyone. It is very true, isn't it? Our entity seems to get nebulous from time to time: we are different people to different people. Our personality become so volatile that it seems so impossible to be true to ourselves. But, why?
Because this is the reality.
It's hypocritical to claim that one is always the same all the time. I'd say life has taught us to hold different perspectives at different things because this world is ever-changing. We are in an ever-changing dimension. From the minuscule passing of a second to the alternation of night and day, changes are cumulative. That's why we become different person, better or worse, because changes are transitional. The very nature of changing is so irresistible that we start to wonder:
It's hypocritical to claim that one is always the same all the time. I'd say life has taught us to hold different perspectives at different things because this world is ever-changing. We are in an ever-changing dimension. From the minuscule passing of a second to the alternation of night and day, changes are cumulative. That's why we become different person, better or worse, because changes are transitional. The very nature of changing is so irresistible that we start to wonder:
Masquerade or Mirror?
We are the masquerades, ostentatious in order to disguise our insecurity. People around us, on the other hand, are the mirrors, the agent to whom we can normally compare ourselves. Everyone is a walking mirror, reflecting different things in different phases of life. This reasons for the fact that we learn and acquire knowledge from time to time. This reasons for our changes. It is us who put on the masquerades to refuse people from looking through us. An instinctive reaction to ease our insecurity. So, where do we find the middle line? Are we to feign smiles all the times but licking our wound in a corner when nobody's around? Or lose ourself from taling blinding behind people? In fact, I don't know. Everyone has their own notion, and thus the assumed middle line is subjective.
So, Masquerade and Mirror are inevitable in our life. Learn to live and adjust ourselves to it, and life'd be much more simple and easy-going.
We are the masquerades, ostentatious in order to disguise our insecurity. People around us, on the other hand, are the mirrors, the agent to whom we can normally compare ourselves. Everyone is a walking mirror, reflecting different things in different phases of life. This reasons for the fact that we learn and acquire knowledge from time to time. This reasons for our changes. It is us who put on the masquerades to refuse people from looking through us. An instinctive reaction to ease our insecurity. So, where do we find the middle line? Are we to feign smiles all the times but licking our wound in a corner when nobody's around? Or lose ourself from taling blinding behind people? In fact, I don't know. Everyone has their own notion, and thus the assumed middle line is subjective.
So, Masquerade and Mirror are inevitable in our life. Learn to live and adjust ourselves to it, and life'd be much more simple and easy-going.
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