It’s better to remain authentically yourself … here’s why
You want genuine reactions from others and that isn’t possible if you don’t expose them to your authentic personality. If all people ever see is your mask, then you’ll never truly know if they like you for you. Vice versa, if someone rejects your mask, it could very well be a possibility that they would accept your authentic personality, but you’d never know without showing them.
It’s best to get genuine reactions to your actual personality that way you can better adjust which people you do and do not want to be around. If someone does not like you for you, then there isn’t much point in continuing your relationship with them since there’s an inherent level of incompatibility, and you save both parties time by being upfront about your personality.
Not to mention, pretending to be someone you aren’t can be very taxing, both mentally and physically. The beauty of being yourself is that by default some people will like you no matter what, and others will dislike you for no reason at all, so why not discover that division as early as possible by being honest about your personality from the start.
Anyways, that’s about it, see ya.
P.S., as a disclaimer, this is not at all talking about face masks, considering this is written during covid times I figured I would just make that distinction now.
