Halloween

It’s the time of ghosts and goblins. The time to find your perfect costume and the best Halloween party. Halloween is an event that is celebrated all over the world.

Most of us are always wearing some type of costume or mask. With a disease like MS where it is essentially invisible we wear the costume of someone who is completely healthy when often times we are not. I definitely do this, I put on makeup before I leave the house to create the illusion I’m feeling amazing when I often am not well at all.

We wear masks for many reasons, good and bad. We use them to hide our identity, or become someone else. Technology has also become another mask that is used to hide behind, to protect ourselves and sometimes to impress and entice others. Fear is a main reason to wear a mask when you are scared of being who you are and being judged for just being yourself.

We all need to work through ways to shed our masks. By not being truly yourself you are holding yourself back from the world and in the long run will limit you potential. By holding back parts of yourself it can be difficult to move on with relationships.

“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
       We wear the mask!

Paul Laurence. Dunbar, ““We Wear the Mask.”” from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, )

I personally love Halloween. My house is decorated and I’m trying to decide on a costume that will take as little energy as possible to prepare.

What are you being for Halloween this year?

Below is picture of my Halloween costume from last year.

Here is an update from “Unicorder…Unicorn” blog. I got the results back on my sleep study and I do not have sleep apnea.

Still smiling,

C