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If you ask a number of people, you still might get mostly the same answer on this. If you don’t want to have to wear a “mask” with some people and not with others, then perhaps you need to strive to be the same person all the time.

Nothing is more confusing to one’s friends than to have to keep guessing “who” you really are. The thing that gets me about this is, people are quick to judge, that apparently if someone is wearing a “mask” at times, then that person is “fake” and two-faced. I don’t believe that is always true. I think that some people have trust issues.

 Are you the person they can trust to really be themselves around. Are you the person who is going to not judge who they are by what the say and do, but are you going to take the time to really get to know that person? It is so easy for us standing back looking in and see the obvious changing of “masks” and think that person is fake and two-faced and untrustworthy, but if you stood back and looked at yourself, and asked yourself this question, am I trustworthy enough for that person to feel comfortable around me so they don’t feel compelled to wear a “mask”?



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  • GrapeKoolaid said on Mar 02, 2008....
    Well we do blog with some amount of anonymity here, so I guess we're all wearing an electronic(virtual?) mask of some kind.  :)  
  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....
    hehe...good one, grape....not quite the answer I was looking for....but a good one!
  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....

    While blogging here, as time goes by, we share more and more about ourselves in our blogs, and probably more revealing in our comments scattered around various blogs on SC....Still, are we wearing the mask at times?....

    Some thoughts on this.?.....

  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....

                                                                   

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  • GrapeKoolaid said on Mar 02, 2008....
    Well, the thing I used to say when I was working in the service sector was that I'd put on my work clothes, put on my work face and go to work(work work work work).  When it comes to inter-personal relationships, I've been known to be a "social chameleon", able to blend in to many different types of situations.  I always knock it out of the park at job-interviews.  It's when I get hired, that's when the disappointment starts, as I am a pretty lazy employee and I poison the staff around me with my anti-corporate rhetoric.  :)  Some have accused me of being "fake" or "two-faced" before, but I don't consider it that way. 

    I was merely trying to find something that I find in common with another person.  Something that I can relate to, in an effort to better understand that person, and ultimately, of humanity, and of something within myself as well.  It is in these common grounds, however little, we build bricks of peace. 

    I happen to believe that empathy is the ultimate redemptive quality in humanity.  So much so in fact, I want to echo Dostoevsky in "Brothers K" and say that "there is no justice, only forgiveness". 

    Something like that perhaps? 
  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....
    DITTO!...
  • Twylarants said on Mar 02, 2008....
    It's so much easier to comment when the commenter before you says exactly what you're thinking, but they put it much more eloquently than you can.
    Thanks, Grape!
    I always say I'm on stage in work because I deal with the buying public all day, so I have to be chatty and entertaining, even though that's not me in rl.  I don't know that I'm wearing a mask...just taking on a role, and that's where being a chameleon comes in handy
     As far as blogging is concerned, anonymity is a mask of sorts...no?  So that takes care of work and here.
    In private with family and friends I'm just me. As long as they have no problem with me, I'm good.
  • Mamie said on Mar 02, 2008....
    I only put on the pretty ones!
  • queenparanoia said on Mar 02, 2008....
    i think wearing a mask is some sort of defense mechanism for some people and for me too...i wear it so that my real feelings would not be shown and it won't get hurt. taking it off would be hard. but i think it's worth it if you take it off for someone you could trust... =)
  • skald said on Mar 02, 2008....
    I don't wear a mask and I have no reason to do that. 
  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....

    Queen--you spoke my mind!...the times I find myself wearing a mask from time to time, is prompted by defense mechanisms being triggered, in my case some insecurities that have still not been healed.

    Thanks, everyone for this discussion, it is going good--skald---I can tell you don't ever wear one, you are exactly the same day in and day out.

    Twyla--I see the same from you, in fact I don't know that anyone commenting on this as of yet wears one here.  Good for all of you,

    I think there have been a few times, since I have been here at Soul Cast, That mask of mine has involuntarily flung itself on me, purely involuntarily on my part.

    Some times that "small child" in me keeps trying to resurface.

    Thanks y'all!

  • D6fer said on Mar 02, 2008....
    If I do....I don't know it.....although professionally I guess I do at times.
  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....

    Thank you D6, what gets me is if someone thinks one is putting on and off the "mask" they autimatically are two-faced or fake, but I don't relate it to that.

    Sometimes, i just don't want to show my feelings, and it is away of sheltering myself at those times.

     

  • JoyousLoving said on Mar 02, 2008....
    Well, what do you consider a mask?  I have different personality traits that are exposed more or less when I'm with certain people.  Does that mean that I am wearing masks because I seem to be a different person for different people?  I don't think so unless you are wearing them to lie and decieve others.  However.  Say you have a hateful person in front of you.  Suddenly they change into a charming, funny person.  Next a despondent, victimized person.  How can anyone know who the individual really is when faced with a variety of changing masks?  This is where the person would seem to me to be untrustworthy.
  • crybabylu said on Mar 02, 2008....
    I agree!   Some people do refer to that as a mask when they talk to me.  And actually all I am ...is different things to different people.....If I am talking to someone who isn't interested, for example, in religion, I'm not going to act all religious etc.
  • lfbno7 said on Mar 02, 2008....
    No I don't sometimes wear a mask.
  • Me-Myself&I said on Mar 02, 2008....
    if i feel that i need a mask around someone....well i don't go around them.
    BUT i do wear a happy mask when i'm sad. *smile*
    nice post. ~see ya
  • papajack said on Mar 02, 2008....
    I never where a mask, but sometimes you probably would like me to, huh Dee? Ha!
  • SikariChepiNashota said on Mar 02, 2008....
    i don't like wearing masks at all...if i can't be ME with a person--or if i'll be forced to wear one, i'd rather just stay away from that person.
    wearing one (if ever)--makes me feel so fake.
    if i'm dealing with an authoritative figure....who is rather abusive of power, i just deal with the matter at hand then off i go---no sucking up to that person at all, i did that many times already.
    if i am dealing with a friend, i tell the friend what's on my mind .

  • SikariChepiNashota said on Mar 02, 2008....
    i like that black mask you put up there crybabylu....i like creating masks--of art. i think they are beautiful expressions of culture, etc..=0) my kids and i made paper mache masks--it was really fun!..=]
  • gingersoul said on Mar 02, 2008....

    At work i found it difficult to constantly put on the "mask" of the good employee... i tend to let my personality being exposed too much thru my comments and jokes...My co-workers often look at me with a puzzled look...i think i scandalize them sometimes ......lol..

    So i think i don't wear a mask most of the time. I am usually blunt and direct and i get bored if i have to adhere to some social 'attire'. I have to remember quite often not to wear my emotions on my face.

    And yet people tend to find me difficult to read, mysterious. I don't know...i don't do it on purpose.....because i know how to hide what i want to hide...i can twirl in front of you even if am hurting inside. But i dont do it to lie....i am a reserved person......  

    And if i do wear a mask surely i like to wear one of these...:-)

    Maschera dal Carnevale di Venezia

  • Lioness said on Mar 02, 2008....
    I agree with queen about the defense mechanism. Sometimes, one doesn't want to get hurt and does not trust too much to avoid getting hurt.

    Most of the time, I don't wear masks. Only make-up. Haha, just kidding. I don't want to bring my worries at work, and so I strive to become jolly and happy even if deep inside, I am sad. Is that counted as a "mask"?


  • Fallyn said on Mar 02, 2008....
    i do.....often.

    there are very few people in this world at all that know the real me.
    the deep down inside me.
    very very few. i really really try not to.....but i'm just too scared to let it slip sometimes.
    but often that's only on a few issues.......not the all the time day to day of life.



  • bluegum said on Mar 03, 2008....
    yes i wear a mask ,i nealy always withdraw from an activiety that puts me on center stage ,even now writing about my fear i can feel it ,the thing that realy bugs me is i can go down well shafts through tunnels i can fell trees on steep mountainous country ,but put me in front of people and i just avoid it .
  • Expendable said on Mar 03, 2008....
    Sometimes I wear a mask. I have to. I used to tell people what I was going on with me, what was really going on. But what I was telling them hurt. They wanted me to be happy.
     
    So I became "happy" for them. A plastic smile, some very pleasant lies and they weren't hurting anymore. They were happier with my mask.
  • crybabylu said on Mar 05, 2008....

    Expendable....I know what you mean like in really! thanks!

    bluegum......I see what you mean, that can be difficult.

    Fallyn.....understand.

    Lioness. .....It may be, but I can't see where that one is a bad mask to wear.

    Ginger.......I love your masks. Thanks!

    Sikari........Somehow, I can't see you wearing a mask either.  and thanks...

    I missed a few of you, but will try to finish up tomorrow.  It is my bedtime now.

     

  • Expendable said on Mar 05, 2008....
    I went back to a place online tonight that I've not visited in a very long time. And found someone who remembered me after I put on an old avatar I had tucked away. And when he saw it, remembered also why he didn't want to talk to me again. He never completely understood my pain or my fears - and still doesn't. it's a funny world but I've got my mask.
  • crybabylu said on Jun 16, 2008....

    Expendable---Sorry, I never saw your comment on this.  It says you made it on Mar. 05, but I had put it back in draft, because sometimes I just can't face my own fears about myself, and this was one of thost times.

    Thank you for commenting even though the thank you is so late in coming.  You certainly answered my question....I guess we all need to pull off and put on our masks from time to time.  Hope we don't have to do it with our friends.

  • Expendable said on Jun 16, 2008....

    Some here use alts as masks. I don't mind as long as it's for a good use. Like if you set up an alt to just give craft tips or movie reviews, etc, that's fine. But if you use that alt to attack other people's blogs, I feel that's wrong. It's abuse and harassment.

  • crybabylu said on Jun 16, 2008....
    I don't know anyone who does that, do you?  Seriously!
  • crybabylu said on Jun 16, 2008....

    I take that back, last week someone used Annimity to attack my blog.  I see your point!  I don't think it was who some thought it was.

  • Expendable said on Jun 16, 2008....
    F troop has dedicated alts for attacking and other stuff while clan flip/flops. There are others.
  • crybabylu said on Jun 16, 2008....

    I must be the clan that flip/flops, huh, but I didn't use an ALT....I used my own username....and I thought I was more defending myself than attacking, but I can see where some might look at it the other way.

    I really need to fix my perception problem, because I was way off on that one. 

  • Expendable said on Jun 17, 2008....
    You're not Clan.
  • crybabylu said on Jun 17, 2008....
    thank you, expendable.  that's a relief, I think....

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