broken

Zoe Baum

Broken

She puts on a new face every morning. Every smile she gives, there’s a crack. The mask on her face stays flawless all day but when she comes home, the mask opens. Her face is barely held together. She’s broken.

Rationale

The story is about a girl who hides her emotions and pretends she is a perfect girl. But in reality she’s slowly breaking down on the inside because of unsaid thoughts. The self-portrait I feel was perfect for my story.

I did my makeup as flawlessly as possible but then put a zipper on my face. The zipper was to represent the mask the girl opens at the end of the day. Underneath the open zipper is cracked, broken skin. For every fake smile in the story, her face broke more. Broken on the inside, fake on the outside. The inner face cracking represents how you feel on the inside when you hide your emotions. The longer you hide, the more you break.

One Pager

Personality and bias. We all have them but not everyone has the same idea of how we got them. There are many theories about how we grew into our bias and personalities such as we got them from our parents. That what our parents taught and how they acted in front of us formed our personalities and bias. Another group of people agree with that but also think it’s what we have experienced in our lives is what shaped us. Some people think that their personality sticks with them their whole life and that’s who we are. But other people disagree and believe we are constantly changing our personalities and that in fact they don’t even exist because of how inconsonant they are.

The personality myth is exactly that. That our personalities really don’t exist due to how we act around different people and what we change into overtime.  Everyone acts differently for different people and everyone changes overtime.  “There are no good or bad people” (Invisibilia Podcast “The Personality Myth), meaning no one is constantly bad or constantly good. That someone could done something bad in the past but changed and doesn’t act the same anymore. Or the other way around with someone who used to do only good and now does bad things. The past cannot change but people can.

I completely agree with the theory of the personality myth. People do change, every day, all the time. When we are little we tend to be gullible to what our parents say but as we are introduced to the public, internet, and television we start to adapt our own thoughts and feelings. An example of this is that I have my parents’ sense of humor because I grew up with it but still have different opinions on subjects because I learned out them myself. I learned other sides and stories so I could have my own thoughts on the subject myself, not just my parents. I can also relate to the idea of not having a consistent personality because while I’m at school, I’m very quiet and reserved but with my friends I’m loud and outgoing. In all honesty most people, including myself, most likely don’t know what kind of personality they have. They just think they know. Our environment is constantly changing and without knowing it we change with it. No one is the same person they were a year ago. We constantly build our character but only in certain situations the real you comes out. We are all hidden under our own skin.  Everyone wants to be the personality they describe themselves as but if people always stayed the same, the world wouldn’t be as interesting as it is now.