Community of

Practice for Service

for Taylors University
The Masks We Wear
All of us have a variety of masks that each of us wears
daily. These may be the identities that have been given to
us, or ones that we have assumed over time.
As long as we recognize that what we wear is a mask we all
are right. But when the mask becomes the seeming reality for
us, then our troubles begin. We confuse the mask with the
person, and if we are achieve enough actors, so do those
around us. Gradually the mask becomes a trap, and we
become the mask (as the performers did in the ancient Greek
plays who would utter their lines while holding a mask in front
of their faces).
The Masks We Wear
Not every use of a mask is negative, however. Masks can help
us build our own defenses for the time we need them. They
can give us power, or at least the illusion of power, in a
time when we may feel powerless. As long as the masks
remain flexible and breakable, we can alter them at will, still
realizing that we are not what we wear on our face as the
mask we present to others.
.. http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/spirit/masks.html
Imagine you are a
SUPERHERO/ Villain
1. What is your superpowers?
2. Explain your back ground and history
3. Your superhero NAME
4. Your characteristic, features, figure
5. Your philosophy and aim
6. Your costume
7. etc