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STAMP: Wearing Masks

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We as people like to look at each other and think we're the only ones truly suffering, that everyone else has perfect lives. We judge them for those lives: "you will never understand me." But all we see are their masks, hiding that they are thinking the exact same things.

:bulletpink:You look at the popular girl in high school and think Wow, she has it all figured out. I wish I were her: she's popular, has plenty of friends, knows exactly what to do, the blokes love her and her parents paid her tuition while I'm working two jobs to pay off my loan.
:bulletpink:Meanwhile, she's looking back: Wow, she has it all figured out. I wish I were her: she knows what she'd doing, where she's going. She can make choices whereas mine are made for me. Her parents support her and while mine think money is the only love they need to give. She hasn't had her heart so broken she's given up any hope of finding happiness.

:bulletblue:You're looking at him thinking He knows what he's doing. I wish I were him: his parents are still together and he doesn't have to mediate between them, feeling a third wheel. He's a natural talent at all the sports he cares to try while I flounder on the field, limited to being a book 'nerd'.
:bulletblue:And he looks back: He knows what he's doing. I wish I were him: he isn't abused or held to impossible expectations, or suffers when he can't meet them. He doesn't find dyslexia getting in the way of his studies making him feel stupid and inferior whilst feeling helpless to deal with it.

All we see are masks.
(Also this turned out way more profound - or profound-sounding - than it was supposed to. :cough: Pain makes me pretty deep. Or emo. Whatever :lol:)

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