I Just Write

  Curated, Crafted, Calibrated, Calculated (clandestine) Character A cool, calm and collected charActor What is a mask? Is it something that covers and hides the face? Or is it something that the face covers and hides behind? I had posed a similar question to a few close people in my life. Whose fault is it: the fool for believing in the fool’s gold to be real? Or the fool’s gold itself for not being real gold, almost as if it had planned to be deceptive? I haven’t come to a conclusion yet.   But I’ve found that the answer varies from person to person and sometimes the same answer, just delivered through another means. One said adamantly that it is the fool and at that point in time I believed it was deceptive of the fool’s gold to pose as real gold. I took their answer personally and in return adamantly disagreed. Another I asked and they were stumped. A third-party had to be brought in, to which their response was “It’s an inanimate object, correct?” This answer prom...