Masquerade

As I was listening to simple plan, It caught my ear when they said, and I quote, "Here we are preteding we're ok, The life we're living, It's all masquerade!" I sat there, as my eyes started staring in blank space, and thoughts floating around in my head, so i thought to myself, why not write a blog. You may think I'm exaggerating but I'm not.

Masquerade - a) A costume party at which masks are worn; a masked ball. Also called masque.
b) A disguise or false outward show; a pretense: a masquerade of humility.

Ironic isn't it? How people seem to have many faces, depending on how many masks a person could own? Some masks are clear, some are gold, some are small and others are big! They come in shapes, sizes and colors, those characteristics differ by preference. As for life, the characteristic scale changes but the concept and purpose stay undeniable. That scale is judged by loyalty and betrayal, honesty and lies, caring and uncaring, and other human traits!

I grew up thinking that people are good!, but growing up taught me that the word "good" is over rated, and people are not like how they appear. The question is who gets to decide what is "good" or who is "good"! Is there some kind of chart with a 1 to 10 rules on being good? I don't think so, if we were to say that people ARE GOOD, then the definition of "good" would be back stabbing, lying, gossiping, bullying and hatred..

Back stabbing, I'm guessing no one denies the fact that there is a huge number of back stabbers and betrayers out there, you and I may not be one of those back stabbers, but that still doesn't mean that we're angels. Many people suffered from betrayals, lies and other "good stuff".

Lying, there's no such thing as a white or innocent lie. Once a lie is told, then it's a lie! No matter how white, or how innocent it may sound, it leads to trouble one way or another, it starts tiny, then small, then bigger, and bigger until it gets to a point where it becomes a mess, "good stuff"

Gossiping, or in other words lying. Gossiping eats you alive! no matter how untrue the things that are said, it haunts a person where ever he goes! Thinking he's not good enough, thinking that people are talking about every step he takes and every move he makes! This gets him insecure! And yet again it leads to bullying.

Bullying in the other hand, is the result of all the above! All it does is, it makes a person hate himself completely and who ever surrounds him therefore that leads to hatred! "Good stuff" huh? As for hatred, this word about sums how people are living these days!

Is that what we want to replace the meaning of "good" with? Because obviously that is what everyone is trying to do, not forgetting the fact that people still hate for other reasons! Like racism and religion.. So, NO we're not okay! And we ARE living in a masquerade. Where we think highly of a person, and then we end up disappointed in whom that person really turns out to be.

So, don't ever be fooled by the mask! There's always a person under it ..