What mask are you wearing?

Today is Halloween when kids and adults dress up and let loose. Yet I can't help but think that today is the one day of the year when people honestly state they are wearing a mask of their choosing.

We all wear masks. The mask of the good employee, pretending to be interested in status updates, excel spread sheets and power point slides. But the truth is that it is a mask.

We wear a mask in school we sit obediently and memorize and respond with the right answer for a grade.

And then Halloween comes around and we don't have to pretend, we can be what our heart desires, we can be a witch because it has been that type of year. We can be a vampire to reflect the soul suckers in our lives. We can be the nurse because we are caregivers.

But on Halloween we can just be and no one expects any differently from us.