The masks of life
By Avi Alog

Words like respect, ego, external appearance, people's opinion, took a significant place in our life, but why?
Does it really matter what people will say about you?
For every person that will say you look good, ten people will say you're not, or the opposite.
For every person that will say you will have a good future with what you are studying, ten people say there is no future in that.
So who will you listen to??
From what I have realized in the short life I had until now, that there's no need to listen, because what does it matter?
If someone will say that im not successful, that mean's I'm not?
If someone will say that I don't look good, that mean's I'm not?
What if it's his own opinion?
Regretfully part of us, or even most of us, give other people to decide who we are, people that don't know them self, tell about us so much.
Why should we give them the place to judge us or decide who and what we are?
After all, the one's that really know every single thing about you, is yourself and nobody eels, not your dad, your mom, your husband or your wife.
Deep inside of us we know what we worth, but sadly we gave other people's opinion to get into our life's and it destroy us and our character.
A lot of people cover them self with masks, ego, so that people wont see who they really are, why?
Because people think they are not strong enough, not worthy enough, not successful enough, so they just put on their mask to get ahead in their job, to meet someone at the bar.
We put on our masks and start working, we think that this is the way, that like this people wont recognize us and like that we are safe.
To tell the truth, we are only fooling ourselves.
I mean, OK,you can hide yourself from the entire world, but how can you hide it from you?
Eventually the mask will reveal and then the only one's that will suffer are us because we were not our self from the first place.
So why did we put the masks in the first place?
Why did we decided we are not good enough? Or smart enough? Or beautiful? Or attractive?
In most of the cases the answer is our surroundings.
Most of us will do a lot of things so the surroundings will except us, respect us, but what about ourselves?
What if we don't except that? Well, it doesn't matter, as long as the surroundings likes it that good!
We are canceling ourselves so many times, putting our ego so it can play the game for us.
Lets say a guy try to impress a woman at the bar,because he thinks impression is good, so he will talk to her in a way that he thinks girls like, he will say something that he is not, he will be busy publishing himself instead of just being himself,
if he know how to work with his mask, he will succeed, for now, but if not, she will see that he is not real and stop talking to him.
Sometimes we spend too much energies on being someone that we are not just for people to like us, or get interested in us, without even realizing what we are doing, we think about so many things before they even happened.
I personally, don't think that ego should have a place in our life, there is no need to put ego for dealing with certain people, there is no need to put ego in front of man or woman that you think could hurt you, you are already hurting yourself by hiding your true being, if you will only show your real self from the first place, you will not be scared to get hurt, you didn't changed for anyone, you stayed yourself.
Who are those people that for them you need to change? Why would you do that for? those people should except you for who you are with everything that you have and don't have, and if they don't, that means they are not for you, they don't deserve your presence.
Ego is not so different then lie, they say lie has legs and it will reveal eventually, so does the ego, so why even bother??
Eventually the one that stay with us all the time, from the moment we got into this world and until we will close our eyes and move to another beautiful place, its us!!
So instead of hiding and burying ourselves, let grow and cherish ourselves.
We came to this world with a purpose and that purpose is to be ourselves, bring ourselves into the world!!
