Notes

An Ever-Changing Masquerade: Love and Hate
The masquerade of love and hate is a dizzying art. It's an ever-changing, tangled web of emotions where what we feel and sense can quickly turn on its head. We flutter from sweet, romantic fantasies to scathing angst and crestfallen despair. We find comfort in our partners one moment, and then its fingers peak in icy fear the next. But, our feelings towards those closest to us never cease to drive us crazy.

In an instant, we can go from loving them deeply, to feeling hate and frustration that’s almost seething in its intensity. We adore them and hate them all at once. So, why do we mask ourselves in love’s ever-changing, sometimes turbulent cascade?

The first layer of our feelings is often jealousy – a deep-seated sentiment that our significant others may be experiencing a joy we are not privy to. It brews, creating an acidic storm that simmers just beneath the surface. We’re forced to cover ourselves, and so, like a costume, we put on a mask, protecting us from betrayal and mistreatment.

We wear our masks of love and hate to protect and shield us from a hurt we don’t understand, or a world that doesn’t understand us. We wear them to silently scream, proclaiming our right to exist, and to feel our extraordinary, own emotions. The masks are there to protect us from ourselves.

We want to share in the joys and sorrows of our lives. But in order to do this, we must let down the walls and take off our masks. When we’re able to look each other in the eye and wrap the world in love, we feel empowered and untouchable.

We want to be there when one another need somebody to turn to. But our fear of being taken advantage of, makes us feel like being vulnerable is too risky. So, often we simply put on that mask and pretend we are someone else. We become a guise, ready to reject or accept the world around us, depending on the situation.

Sometimes we prevent ourselves from being emotionally vulnerable because of a prior betrayal or disappointments. The masquerade becomes a look of disdain or blame – a way of pushing people away. dating advice We use the mask of hate to expel any negative feelings that everything we do or say is wrong or pointless.

Sometimes we are too scared to express ourselves, so we retreat behind our mask of disinterest and self-loathing. We disguise our worries, our uncertainty, and our grief by putting on a smiling face. We take our hurt and bury it so deep, no one else will ever see it.

But the truth is, love and hate are two sides of the same coin. We often use the mask of hate to ward off those who want to get close to us, and yet really, we yearn for their closeness. We want to care for others, to embrace and be embraced, but we worry we will only experience pain and sorrow if we let go.

This masquerade of love and hate can be hard to handle. We grapple with its complexity and its awkwardness. We strive to open up and make real connections, while fearing the pain that comes with it. We play with this dance of emotions, moving from joy and contentment to deep sorrow and anger, as if under some kind of hypnotic spell. Yet somehow, in its tumultuousness and upheaval, it creates a unique bond, a bond that we can’t help but relish.
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