Masks and Mortality: What Halloween Teaches Us
On Halloween, we put on costumes: monsters, ghouls, witches. But the rest of the year, we wear other kinds of masks: the caretaker, the achiever, the agreeable one. Sometimes we’ve worn these masks so long they feel like part of who we are. They are who we are. We first put them on for good reasons—fear of rejection, fear of loss, fear of failure. They were survival strategies that once kept us safe. But they don’t protect us forever.
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