Phantom of the Opera, Darth Vader, Green Lantern, Batman, and Spiderman. What do they all have in common? Masks. All of those characters wear masks, although they wear them for different reasons. The Phantom and Darth Vader wear the masks to hide their disfigured face, while Green Lantern, Batman, and Spiderman wear the masks to hide their true identities.
However, most people do not put on a visible mask that everyone can see. They often hide behind their own face, whether they consciously realize it or not. My freshman year in high school, I hid behind a mask, although it did take me a while to realize it. Actually, it took my parents help to realize it completely, because I thought I was just living the way I thought I was supposed to. I won't go into the specifics of what happened, but I was lying to my parents, or not telling them the whole truth at times, and was being two different people both at home and at school, although I never actually realized it myself.
Most people put on a mask to hide from themselves, or to hide themselves from others. They often tend to disregard the fact that even though they think they are being safe, and not hurting themselves, they really are, and also others as well. By not being who you really are, it will be quite difficult for someone to get to know the real you.
That is a problem many people face, especially when online. Many people will put on a mask online, and act like someone that they are not, to try and steal some one's identity or eventually meet up with a person that they have met online, only to harm them in some way.
Not everyone has to be a superhero to wear a mask either. Every day when we go to school, we are surrounded by people wearing all different kinds of masks, both positive and negative. The popular kids have a mask of "coolness" and being totally carefree, in on all the new styles, and always going to the coolest parties. However, underneath that "cool" mask, there could actually be someone who just needs to be loved because life at home is difficult, or their parents just went through a divorce. Therefore, the school is their kingdom, where they rule the school.
So, we are surrounded by all kinds of masks everyday, whether we realize it or not.
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