The Masks We Wear

             As a society all people wear a type of mask to hide something about their
             personality. As long as an individual is influenced by another or group of individuals we
             will always wear some type of mask. Every day people wake up and put on their game
             face. No one is completely open, its not a trait that we posses. We all have something to
             hide. Weather its as small as smiling when you are felling low or if you go to church so
             that you wont be tagged sacrilegious. Everyone has something to hide and eventually we
             When I see people in the school yard I see a multitude of masks. I see certain
             guys that will make fun of someone who is maybe a little smarter or maybe a little
             skinnier. I see girls that are looked down on because they dress a little differently. I see
             guys that pick on other guys to impress a girl or the "cool kids." It's not right, but
             Every morning I wake up I try to decide what I should wear. I try to pick an outfit
             that wont make me really stand out. I see girls on TV that don't have an ounce of fat on
             them. I know it must be hard for girls in our society to try to match that. Guys feel like
             they need to have a rock hard body and chiseled abs to get with a hot girl. Nobody wants
             to get noticed for their minds. Lets face it when was the last time that you saw a model
             Our society teaches us how we should act. When we turn on the TV we see an ad
             for makeup or for a kind of shoe. We can't get away from it, its everywhere. We see it
             when we drive, we see it when we go shopping. It imprints on our brains and we start to
             It comes to us like second nature. We don't even realize that we do it half the
             time, and when we do we act like it's nothing. I don't think it will ever change, as long
             as we are living in a society that says we are able to make our own de
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