The Festival of Masks
Sometimes we will hide an inner or different personality, behaviour, feelings or thoughts. Things that we don’t show to the person around us, things that we keep only to ourselves, and to hide these things we will wear a mask. A mask that is often be call hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is usually considered by many as a dishonourable act because the people who practice it is being dishonest by not showing the truth about themselves and that it’s better to live by always to telling the truth no matter what. But can hypocrisy truly consider as a bad thing? Is it really a good idea to show your true self all the time, to everyone around you?
The truth is hypocrisy can’t be count as a bad thing all the time as sometimes we will face a situation where it is better to wear a mask and hide the truth than to tell it, depends on the situation we are facing, or the reason we wear it. If we wear the mask so the people around us wouldn’t feel uncomfortable, or to make the people we love happy, is that still considered as a dishonourable act?
But there are also bad consequences, by keeping all of our true feelings under the mask we may hurt ourselves. As people always say to gain something, we must sacrifice something else in return? if we always want to keep everyone else happy, we probably end up losing our own happiness. I guess to avoid from meeting such consequences, we must first decide which is more important to us, our own happiness or the happiness of the people we love. If the answer is the happiness of the people we love, then it’s fine to wear the mask, but if we decide our own happiness is more important, then we should just take the mask down and face the world with our true selves.
Hypocrisy is never a good practice despite what’s the reasons is. In the early stage a little of hypocrisy might not hurt, but as time goes, we got closed with our partner, the mask tend to stick on our face.
By then would a person willing to show their true self? I believed not. This is where people are then to worries that they might actually hurt their partner’s feeling. So they keep the act alive and lies going on.
Basically never ever practice hypocrisy. It’s even against our religious.