masks we wear in our life

This is a well-known fact that every person usually behaves differently in different situations or spheres of life. It is more obviously noticed when we communicate with someone at work, and then within his or her family. Usually at work we try to demonstrate others our willpower, confidence, awareness and self-sufficiency. We do it because we want to prove our knowledge, to create special desired people's attitude about us and look more serious and cleverer. But when we come home after work and start cooking for our family, clean the flat, play with children or help them to do the homework we behave differently, we change our manner of speaking, our attitude and probably traits of character. We do it because in the family we don't have to prove every moment that we are clever and confident, we don't have to be strict and hide our emotions. In the family, at home we can afford ourselves to be actually ourselves.
Unfortunately, people have created the rules of behavior, appropriate for every moment of our life, themselves. And that is exactly that set of rules that makes us wear the masks. For example, we should be polite with elder people,with those who have higher position at work, with teachers, with parents, sympathize with people's troubles, be happy during birthdays and weddings and so on and so forth.
Although it is very difficult to be ourselves and it is hard to get to know the soul of the other person, to understand and to open yourself, somehow we have got used to live with it, to change one masks to the more appropriate one and I think that this "game" helps us in many cases to hide something which is so dear for us, to hide ourselves.