Column: Masks

Maybe the world is slowly recovering from a pandemic that is wrecking everything from grocery routines to wedding ceremonies, but we are still required to wear masks in public areas. While masks are supposed to protect us from the virus, masks can also be an unnecessary rhetoric to something serious.

Masks prevent us from showing our face to the world. It shows a subconscious effort to hide something from which the public is withheld from knowing. Masks can temporarily hide what pains us inside. Our egos cannot escape scrutiny later on, and this leads us to find comfort in masking what is inside us.

But such will not be visible for many, because people are triggered by inconveniences which lead to senseless manifestation of aggression. While some might find wearing masks to be an exuberant act of certain causes that peek into the abyss, many will find it excessively required of, so that it pisses most people off to the point of defiance.

America is free, and so people extend this philosophy to their daily lives, defying orders that is meant to protect the public from a certain disease that has claimed lives and hospitalized many. Freedom is to be taken in context, and now the news suddenly become a reality show that slowly filming scenes while people lose it by the requirement of wearing face masks.

As monuments topple, vandals are everywhere, grocery items flying across the aisle, or some of us enduring the uncomfortable feeling of having masks over our noses, we can clearly see how small things in life can terrorize us.

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