Getting Off the Mask

I just recently finished reading One Day by David Nicholls. I was able to buy it half of its original price (which I think costs as much as 300. Thank God for Book Sale.

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The story began on July 15, 1988- Edinburgh University's graduation day. And that night, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew met and had a near romantic experience. The plot then takes us through their interconnected lives every 15th of July for the next twenty years.

Emma and Dexter had ought not tell how they felt for each other. They kept their feelings to themselves and chose to have relationships with other men and women. It was long until they finally realized that they loved each other and be together.

With this I would like to share one of my favorite poems. I guess the poem's enough to explain what happened to Emma and Dexter's lives, or maybe even with our lives.

MASKS

Shel Silverstein

She had blue skin

and so did he.

He kept it hid

and so did she.

They searched for blue

their whole life through,

then passed right by--

and never knew.

The poem had me thinking a lot of things. Why do we always tend to be blind about things when all this time it was right front of us? Why do we have to overlook and over think things and deny our feelings about it? I am not saying this because I'm straightforward of mine. I am an Emma myself who likes to keep things to herself. I admit I have always been wearing a mask to hide my real self and feelings. But sometimes I tell myself that I have to be brave and face it. I may not have lived long enough, but my years in life taught me that we sometimes need to take risks, because in those times great things might come.

Right now I think my present self's better than my old one. I have learned to get off that mask and have gained confidence to show who I really am and what I really want. I hope this goes on. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll wake up and open my eyes to see my Dexter beside me and the life I have always dreamed. :)

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