We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.   Francois de La Rochefoucauld Masks can be fun...short-term.  And masks are really only meant for frivolity, not for hiding behind.  Too many of us wear masks. Oh nobody else may be able to physically see a mask but we all have, at one time or another, constructed an invisible one for our hearts and our faces.  We have created masks out of fear, insecurity, anger.  Those are the usual  culprits .  Almost any reason we can think of for our masks has a root that lies in one of those  characteristics . And some of us have worn the mask for so long that we can't remember who we truly are underneath.  In fact, we have forgotten that we are not the mask!  And so we lose ourselves and if we never run into someone who can and does remind us of who we really are at the core then we end up living a fake life - one that is controlled by the ma...