The Mask

The other day we had a man come to our school and talk about putting on a mask. The guy came and talked to our school about putting on a mask. He had many examples of putting on a mask. Putting on a mask is not actually putting on a literal mask. It means to put on a cover to cover up who you really are. Like covering up your real self to fit into the situation that you think you need to be to fill the gap. The guy who came to talk to our school talked about a story that one day, his daughter came in to his bedroom in the morning. She liked to get her daddy up to play games with him in the morning instead of waking up her mom, she just woke up her dad. Her dad would not wake up so she got on the bed. She jumped up on top of him and she put all of her weight and her elbow into his groin. He was injured. Instead of yelling at his daughter and getting mad, he slowly got up and did not say anything to the young girl. The guy said that he put on a mask that day because he did not want to scare his daughter. There is a difference in the types of masks that you put on. This guy put on a mask so he would not scare his daughter though he was in extreme pain. He was very strong through this and it was a very thick mask that he put on. The bad type of a mask is putting it on so you could impress other people. I have been known to put on a couple of these masks. I do not mean to put them on, but sometimes I feel like I have to. A major reason I do this is so I do not have to deal with the consequences. I do it when I deal with my step mother. I do not really care if I impress her anymore, but I used to dress to her standards and I would not be comfortable. Sometimes I still put on that mask, but I have gotten stronger on standing up to her and wearing what I want to wear.