The Story Behind The Mask

What is mask for? What was the used of it? A mask was use for covering the face of the person that worn as disguise or sometimes use in an event or party as a costume. The mask was either to amuse or to terrify others. Then what does this mask behind and what this is for? For every life there was a story behind, what was the reason why I have this orange mask in the first place. Is it for an event? or there was a valid reason for this. Yes, there is a valid reason why I have this mask, it was for a stage play portraying the evil. The story was about how the good one's able to defeat the evil but what was the reason why the color of mask was orange instead of red? Usually red color symbolizes evil, strong emotion such as anger, rage and negative emotion that's why the enemy always symbolize red but the reason why mine was orange was because it will be a shadow dance play. It was a fundraising event for our church and the funds that we will get on this event will be used for the renovation of our church, because everytime the weather was bad there’s a lot of leak in the roof of our church and you can see multiple holes on it, plus it is a little bit old. This is one of the reasons why we decided to hold an event and do something about it.

The summary of story tells about the creation and destruction, the white mask symbolizes all the good things, and it was showed to create things and show the beauty of everything. It was then the guy who was wearing white mask was living in a very peaceful place where there are no things to be seem and its only darkness, so the guy wearing the white mask decide to make things that will made this very peaceful place to a lively place, he created light so this darkness will be wipe out, together with nature, animals and every living creature that could made a wonderful place. The wonderful things were already set and the white guy who was wearing mask was living his life but then chaos fell, somebody disturb the silence it was the guy who was wearing an orange mask, he came to destroy everything and never leave a trace behind. So it was then a war begun between the two individuals and it was an never ending battle, a lot of beautiful things created by the good guy (white mask) destroyed by the evil one (orange mask) it was so chaotic that the place became the a battlefield , the good guy felt sad because of what happens and the evil guy still continue on what he is doing , he will be satisfied if the good guy will die but it never happened and always the good side wins. The battle came to an end and the good guy defeated the evil and distinguish its presence, later on the white guy created a world where peace and harmony rise. The story was based on the story of creation in the Bible. The two masks represent good and evil, and it also represents God & Devil. It was a fascinating story that made alive in play. In reality this world has still good and evil but the message of this was the good will always win and evil will never ever victorious on good.

This event and play happened two years ago, I happened to see it in my memories on facebook and it brings a lot of good nostalgic memories. I remember that after my work I’ll went to our church just to practice shadow dancing and to be honest it’s not that easy, we practice for almost a month for this event, we were so thankful and blessed that it was successful. The effort and time we gave was all worth it, the funniest thing about this was we were only just beginners and totally clueless how to make a good setup on shadow dancing, prepare props, where can we get this light, learn from the videos and clips on youtube and etc, but because of teamwork and cooperation of everyone the event was successful, and it was a blast. I don’t know if someone from my churchmate video our performance but the only thing I saw on my memories was my photo that I uploaded.

I am happy to tell that because of this event we able to help our church to fix the roof and up until now it was okay. This mask is small, yet it carries a lot of good story behind it, hope you like my story and what’s the reason behind it.