Writers Asylum Forum your masks

I can up with this earlier today in the shower, unfortunately I didnt write it down , so bear with me as I try to remember it.

We all have our masks we show to the world, this is refered to as your persona. If you had the mask from the movie " the Mask" what would it reveal about yourself. Nothing like super powers or anything, but what would it bring out in you that you usually hide from the world. Do any of these traits come out in your characters?

I hide my insecurities. Instead of being the brash a*s-kicker that I am, I would probably cry a lot or never talk to anyone. It wouldn't be pretty, believe me.

What a wonderful, and potentially frightening question, to ask.

Like most people I spent a large portion of my life hiding behind a variety of masks. One primary mask and a few accessory masks for those impromptu occasions. Then, about twelve years ago I began doing a great deal of work with indigenous cultures around the world. My first great lesson: they could see through any mask. I had to strip away everything that I had pretended to be and, most difficult of all: I had to find out who I truly was. Now, twelve years later, I can no longer don a mask. I fall flat on my face. Friends have told me, many times: David, you need to put on this, or that, persona if you want to succeed with this situation.

I can't, and it is absolutely wonderful.

i'm very good at putting up a mask. i've done it all my life. I am one that does not let others in very easily, so when "nothing is wrong", there is too much wrong.

I tend to be pretty straight forward with my inner sanctum per se. That's how I know my friends are true friends because they don't care when I do something psychotic or say something for no cause other than to annoy or yank a response out of somebody.
I do scare myself though with some extents that I'll go to. If i had a mask it would probably be more like the bad guy, a twisted demonic feind. Then again one could never be certain until they actually don the mask. For all I know i could come out looking like a twist between Michael Jackson and Rosie O'Donnel (oh god! I just pictured that too!)

I think I tend to have to wear a "normal" mask. When I'm around people that I'm comforable with, I don't mask my inner self and I go off on tangents and express every random thought I have. However I restrict myself more in the presence of strangers or mere acquantances. I find it practically impossible to pretend to some of my close friends, because they've learnt to read my inner feelings through my facial expressions. I tend to "wear my heart" on my face a lot, rather than the proverbial "sleeve". It's kind of a quirk of mine that can be annoying at times.

I am defiantly nothing more than just a mask. a pit of hatred, which fuels my being, created out of hate. A creation spawned by the creation itself.

Yep......

its true