Truth behind the MASK

MASK IN CULTURE

Across culture and history, the face has been bestowed with incredible importance and power. Faces represent as a point of contact and their artistic representation, whether  human, animals or spirit.

MASK has been used for many centuries to express culture and spiritual believes  creating identities and transform personalities. In some culture, it is to said that spirits and ancestral beings can inhabit in a mask. thus making the wearer endows themselves with new power.

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- Mask of Garuda - Bali -

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- Korean Hahoe Mask - Korea -

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 - Dia de los Muetos Figure - Mexico -

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MASK IN EVERYDAY LIFE

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From then picture above you might have guessed what are mask use in today's society. If you have guessed to protect one face form sun burn, then you have guessed WRONG. The correct answer is to protect one's identity form the rest of the world. Much like this super hero, WE (as normal citizens of the world)  have created our own mask that we use in our everyday life but we just don't have ACTUAL masks for these mask (kinda like invincible mask...in a way) and we unconsciously put them on when we need to.

"Have you ever seen a friend of yours do something that shocked you the very core? Something that made you think, “I thought I knew him/her, I didn't know they’d be like that”? "

- internet anonymous -

The existence of there ask can be seen in the fake laugh and smiles that explodes form a person who tries too hard to look good to empress someone.

“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.”

- Richard Bach - 

If you are telling yourself that you're not wearing a mask by the end of this post, have you ever thought that MAYBE you got too use to wearing a mask that you don't notice it anymore?

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PS : My blog post is not in order.....sorry...