The Mask You Put On at the Gate
Every morning, somewhere between leaving home and reaching the school gate, something happens. The relaxed, real, talkative you — the one your family knows — goes quiet and careful. You put on a kind of mask: cooler, flatter, harder to read. Safe. You don't even decide to do it anymore. It just clicks into place, like armour. By home time it comes off again and you go back to being yourself. The mask protects you. But lately you've wondered: if you wear it every single day, for years, does it stop being a mask? Does it just… become your face?
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