BEHIND THE MASK

Somehow, someway, in the process of going up the stage called life, we pick up masks that we intend to wear throughout the period we would be on stage playing out the roles inscribed in our scripts. While some that are strictly religious endeavor to play out roles given to them by their CREATOR, others play out roles that they have created for themselves. With different actors on stage playing out their roles with brief smiles on their faces, they’ve got varying expressions behind the mask being worn for the show. The actor who laughs best in the show may possibly have bags of frowns behind his mask and the one that kept smiling ceaselessly in the show may have trails of tears behind his mask. I may not be making any sense but let me re-iterate by saying that the stage I’m talking about is this world where we are born someday and die someday, some say it’s a crazy world and will take crazy people to live herein, others say it’s a wonderful world with beautiful people. The masks are the things we’ve attached so much emotion and passion to, some wear the mask of luxury, some wear the mask of power, some wear the mask of gods, some wear the mask of poverty, some wear the mask of extravagance, some wear the mask of prosperity, some wear the mask of holiness, some wear the mask of academics and so on. While the masks are things we attach so much priority to, they are also the things people know us for. The roles we play are our lifestyles in accordance with the mask. The CREATOR is GOD, ALLAH, JAH. The script is the purpose of our lives. So many times I have wondered if the masks we wear really represents what is behind the mask. I will leave that for you the reader of this article to figure out, while you do that also ask yourself, “is your lifestyle representing a genuine purpose for your being in this world?” we all have dreams, just that some can’t articulate their dreams, some have forgotten about their dreams and others no longer believe in their dreams…………but we all have a DREAM in us! In conclusion of this piece, I would like us to realize that all those that have been recognized as successful people or as great minds in the history of this world, have been those who linked same purpose on their masks and behind the mask (those that cry on the outside just as they cry on the inside & laugh on the inside just as they laugh on the outside) or those who were courageous enough to put off their mask of no genuine purpose for the world to see who the real person behind the mask is, never minding what people would think or say. I am talking about GREATMINDS like: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison, Billy Graham, Pope John Paul 11, Helen Keller, Martin Luther king jr, Abraham Lincoln, Rev. Martin Luther, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Ghandi, Harriet Tubman, Mother Theresa, on and on it goes. I would like to urge you to discover your true self and show it to the world, your little effort is sufficient to make the world a better place ! once again, ask yourself this; “WHO ARE YOU BEHIND THE MASK?”