True Identity

One's true identity is often withheld from society. We all have friends who know who we really are, yet to strangers we keep ourselves masked. What is this fear that drives us to live in shadow? If we can feel comfortable around friends, why not around strangers? Around people who dont matter to us, who have no influence on our lives, and who likely dont care what we are like? People who will look at us for 15 seconds and then never look at us again? The human mind is a strange thing, indeed.