Do you think it is possible to hide your personality?

Do you think it is possible to hide your personality?

Personality can be defined as characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of a person. From time to time, it so happens that people try to "mask" their natural personality, and they can have various reasons for that. To my mind, hiding your true character traits and feelings is really hard.

Why do people conceal their personalities? First of all, they can mask some drawbacks when they have a strong desire to seem better than they are, especially if their aim is to earn one’s affection and trust. Secondly, there are those who try to benefit from hiding their personalities in a certain way; for example, some people pretend to be weak and vulnerable in order to get sympathy and support, and some people flaunt their intelligence to receive one’s approval. Finally, concealing your true personality can be a way of overcoming life’s hardships. In some cases, it is necessary to be more confident or selfish than you usually are to cope with some problems.

And why is it not so easy to mask your true personal traits? It is common knowledge that human personalities are formed for many years, so it can be immensely difficult to hide some of your inherent features. Even if you manage to succeed in concealing your personality, you start feeling ill at ease with the passage of time. Revealing your true character at some point is almost inevitable.

Taking into consideration all mentioned above, I can make a conclusion that hiding your personality is possible only at certain times, and not every person has such an ability.