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It's still Syawal and we have been celebrated Eid ul-Fitr for almost 2 weeks. A month where most of us seek for forgiveness and forgive each other; which keep me wonder if we really mean by what we said "please forgive me", "sorry for everything that I've done" and "I forgive you". I've seen among my siblings that we said sorry to each other and then the next day, we hurt each other and talk bad behind each other again. It's like we just said sorry for the sake of tradition or trend and don't really mean it. Or on another side, we just wear a mask and forgive others while inside, we really hate that person and never forgive him/her with all of our heart. After all, we all wear masks and only show our real face sometimes. Put the mask on, fake the smile and say nice thing to each other. Is that what we have been doing every day? Some of us wear masks just to make others love them. The truth is not everyone prefers you to be yourself.

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” - Andre Berthiaume