Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul. J.D. Stroube
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The world is full of people who hide their true pain behind a mask. They pretend to be happy, even when they are not. The idea of hiding your true self is not a good one. It is so easy to pretend you are happy when you are sad.

And, it is so easy to laugh when you are angry. When you do this you are making yourself feel better but it will never last. When you are truly happy, the world around you will know it by your happiness and when you are truly angry, the world around you will know it by the way that they have treated you unfairly.

The best thing that we can do is accept our feelings and show them to the world around us. If we do that, the world will understand what makes us who we are and who we want to be for the rest of our lives

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