On the subject of masks...

[deathpixie]

We all wear them. We have the public persona we project to the world, the one we hide behind and use to protect ourselves from the harshnesses and vagaries of the ratrace we call modern society. We have the image our families project onto us, and sometimes if we're lucky that image is pretty close to the way we actually are. The smiles we wear for our friends, and the frowns we wear for strangers. There's the people we wish we were, the ones we wish we weren't, and the ones in between.

There are times when I wonder which is the real me, under all the faces I wear.