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They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, meaning our eyes snitches on us no matter how much we try to hide what’s going on with us. The eyes can give you away without you even having to say a word!

Everyone wears masks. We wear them to hide ourselves, to hide our pain, to hide what we are going through because we don’t want to burden our loved ones. But the masks we wear may hide our facial expressions but it doesn’t hide our eyes and despite our best acting, the eyes doesn’t lie. Our eyes can tell when we are in pain, filled with love, joy, sadness, or anger. Our eyes can tell if a person is alert, sleep, or dead.

Sometimes we wear the masks so long that we become the mask while our eyes are screaming our pain to the world. I know because I became the mask. I wore a mask so long to hide my unhappiness that I actually fooled myself into thinking I was happy again, which was easy to do because many people avoid eye contact, so even though my eyes were screaming sorrow, no one noticed. Not my family or friends. It’s crazy as. The people you want to notice your pain or the very people that caused you the pain never see the damage they caused and a stranger that may not know you from Adam instantly see the pain and hurt you’ve been holding inside.

Why is that?

We’ve all heard, blood is thicker than water, well in some instances that may be true but water is a necessity of life and supposedly in some cases, water turn out to be thickier than water. We can’t pick our family. The only thing