Mask

We wear masks for ourselves and for others. We should not be ashamed of this, only aware of it and how these masks serve or do not serve us.
As we grow and learn more deeply  who we truly are, the masks of yesterday help to remind us who we have been and  how far we have come. One can remove a mask and lay it to rest. Upon revealing what lies beneath a mask, yet another layer is exposed, perhaps one of trust or vulnerability.  Or maybe it is one of fear and confusion. Do we ever remove the mask utterly and bare our beings with no expression or protection? Is that not when we remove the body from the equation also, and become mask-less spirits experiencing  every emotion, every disguise, and absolute nakedness, all at once. The illusion a mask gives us is that we can hide behind it.  The very mask we choose shows precisely what our soul’s journey faces.

By Chrysta Bell
Submitted 5.15.09