The Brutal Truth About Your Suffering: It’s Not the Tragedy That Breaks You—It’s the Mask You Refuse to Take Off
- Reildo Souza
- Feb 8, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 6, 2025
The world just knocked you flat. Maybe it was the career-ending layoff, the sudden loss of a loved one, or the relationship that dissolved into dust.
In that hollow space, you whisper the question every spiritual person asks: If I am divine, if I am truly loved, why am I broken? Why do I hurt so much?
Here is the answer your Ego doesn't want you to hear: The pain isn't coming from the loss; it's coming from the roles that loss just ripped away.
The Core Shift (The "Mask" Concept)
We are all actors in a play we didn't write. We hide our true, powerful essence behind a collection of "Social Masks":
The Director of the company.
The Perfect Parent who has it all figured out.
The Stable Spouse providing security.
Your Ego created these masks for acceptance and safety in a demanding society. They work beautifully—until they don't.
Every form of attachment to these temporary roles is a ticking time bomb.
When your children grow up, the "Parent" mask loses its central role, and you suffer. When the market turns and your job vanishes, the "Director" mask shatters, and you feel worthless.
The Real Faith
Any moment of happiness built on these social masks is temporary. When the environment is constantly changing, holding onto an impermanent role is a guaranteed recipe for agony.
This is the secret to keeping your faith alive after a tragedy: You have to stop defining your existence by things that can be lost.
The moment you lose the mask—the moment you lose the job, the role, the title—is not the end. It is a violent, necessary invitation to rediscover the only thing that cannot be taken: your true essence.
The Takeaway
You are infinitely more powerful than the temporary roles society forces you to wear.
The true search for everlasting faith and happiness is not found in building a better life; it's found in stripping away the façade. Let the mask burn.
Your faith doesn't rely on your job title, your relationship status, or your financial stability. It relies on the indestructible, divine self that remains when everything else has been taken away. Find that, and nothing can break you again.
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