The Secret Faces

Today I had a very revealing conversation about the secret faces people often put on to hide what they're feeling. This is a very prevalent issue, especially in today's increasingly connected world where one feels pressured to commit to certain emotional paths that set concrete restrictions on what we can and cannot feel, or at least how we express what we feel. So, is hiding our true emotions actually a good thing? I think its good in moderation, it's never a good idea to flood your environment with a strong tide of misplaced or unthought-out ideas and notions, especially after emotionally traumatic events. Then again, its not a good idea to let one's poker face slide over for too long. I think that if we wear the mask for too long we start to lose what's underneath.

Picture Time: Crazy break dancers in Boston (though they came from NY). This illustrates a few key aspects of life: 1) people from Boston are fascinated by those hip hopping hip hoppers from Big Apple. 2) Child prodigies till exist today (look carefully, the kid in the foreground was doing exactly what the guy dancing is doing only a few minutes before. 3) It's a completely unjustified stereotype that black people know how to dance better than white people. BUT LOOK AT THEM.