What does it means to be a person, a mere speck in the background of a vast and impersonal universe? A person is a human mask with an egotistical design, hiding the fear man has of facing his insignificance in an universe which doesn’t resolved around his existence. Strip the person from the man and you will find a persona, strip the persona and you will find the Latin word for mask, strip the…

The mask of pretense.

Pretense was naturally weaved into the fabric of our human nature; from early childhood, we were trying on playful masks of made believe, but as we’ve become more conscious of the judgemental eyes of others, we started to wear the mask of acceptance so that we could ward off the social death of rejection. Social death is just as frightening to us social beings as physical death, but unlike…