How many people on here do you think are fake

Like the make up I caked on this morning?

As in who we think we are, and the parts of ourselves we hold back. How we represent ourselves to others to create an impression.

Yes, pink, a mask. Think of it. Do you behave exactly the same with your bank teller as you do with your close friends? No! That is your bank teller face/mask. What about the grocery store guy who stocks shelves? Do you show the same face to him as you do to your mom? No. We all have different masks we wear at appropriate times. The server in the restaurant won't see the same me as my daughter when I go to her place for dinner. I don't wear my silly mask in public! Well, okay I do here, but this isn't exactly public, is it?

I don't see as the same to wear a mask or being fake. I sometimes wears a mask when I'm in avoidant mood, to save my face, or avoid question about how I am feeling, or simply because people don't deserve to have a sad face in front of them. It costs me an effort but I wear it.

I consider fake as someone who is prettending to be another person.

Ok, I'll stop being a silly for a minute and weigh in. I was thinking about this the other day. We present different sides of ourselves to different people and when appropriate. Call it fake, wearing a mask, or adapting to a situation. Some people may get one side of me but not another, I don't think I'm being disingenuous just because I don't choose to share all of me with a particular person.