Sunday 20 August 2017

The MASK


The mask fell down and it was scary to see the image which was lying at her feet....
What a disaster it was ....

She rushed in a frenzy leaving that mask behind.. a reflection in the mirror of the hotel lobby .. for a flash second , took her by surprise... The person who flashed back at her was not someone she had known in her recent years .. it was a stranger but why still it seemed familiar to her.
What a beautiful , lively figure it was ...
She stepped back to check again at the image in the mirror .. was it someone she knew.. she tried recalling.. "for sure it isn't  my reflex.." she contemplated.

Thousands thoughts crossed her mind in a flash of a second... "Am I dead and in someone else's body.. should I believe in re incarnation.."
And what followed was another starking realization.....
It was someone she knew many years back.. She tried recalling .. 10.  --- 15 ----- or may be 20 years back.

The same old familiar live stature which seemed so distant now ... But then why was it reflecting back at her as if her own image....

Yes , she had now realized that it was the MASK which fell had covered her all these years..

The moment she let that go off she was the same old  HERSELF...
She looked back at the fallen mask still lying at the  reception lobby waiting to be dumped in garbage.
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How often we misinterpret the mask to be ourselves. Whereas the real self is hidden behind the MASK.

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