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…I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one.
(Sting “Shape of My Heart”)


Not a secret to anyone that almost every adult person is a bundle of complexes, among which the inferiority complex is the most painful and troublesome. Suffering from it, they try to find an appropriate image that would help to throw a different light on them and make them look what they want to be but not what they really are.
Seems as if you were standing in front of a wall with some masks placed on it and you were to choose any of them. Though the choice you are given is quite a certain one, still having the opportunity to take the mask not marked as “I” sets you into the particular contemplation. You can either pick out an ordinary mask with very recognizable features and standard setting , but then appears the danger to lose yourself, thus showing-off leads not to revealing one’s personality but to disguising it. Alternatively, choosing the “I”-mask (which is actually not a mask as soon as you wear it) will provide you the mutual understanding, the inner harmony and the absence of intention to show-off.
Let us take the first way and ponder upon where it can guide us. As the matter stands, one should clearly see what the word “showing-off” means. Of course, everybody knows the sense of it for the speed of the colloquial speech development is rather high nowadays. Still, if looking into the etymology of the word, one cannot but notice that it consists of two parts where the first one implies some “demonstration” and the second stands for “remote”, “detached”, “isolated”. Therefore, we can conclude that a person who tries to show (him- or herself) off does only estrange him- or herself and attain a certain success or fame just due to the image he/she applied to.
If choosing the second way to gain some status in the society, one gets a very transparent and unique chance to succeed in becoming...