Is this a saying or is it a movie….the man with a thousand faces (I would say ..expressions instead of mask ) ? Are there people like that ? I really believe so…especially where the expression part is concerned! People take up acting careers and later move on to theaters or movies…surely, they portray various roles..good guy..bad guy etc , thus showing their skill at wearing different masks! Applying different methods to act the roles, they use the service of the make up artists. I guess that without the makeup, they will still be plain old John or Jane Doe with lives worse than us, and characters that will put them to shame! So, they are people with a thousand faces…masks…expressions! In our daily lives, we tend to do the same….different masks for different occasions. It is tough to say that we remain the same from birth to the present ! Our experiences, environments and even encounters shape us…we respond differently to various stimuli! Our responses are not limited to a single one but to several….we choose the one which we feel is the best in handling the situation..it is our choice! We are not robots programmed with a single reaction to a single situation. The human brain is fascinating and complicated! So we are complicated. We are human. Each person has different characteristics, and so behave differently from each other. Even though we have that character/ principle baseline which we value so much, a simple harmless kitten may exhibit the roar of the lion under certain circumstances! It is better to tell the truth and be thought of as a cruel person, than to tell a lie while wearing the mask of the innocent, and having people liking you? So , wherever you are now and whatever you are doing, which mask are you wearing?
LIVE AND LEARN !