How we relate to The Scarlet Pimpernel's masks

Have you ever realized that we all have masks too? Especially in jr. high. Example, say that you are in love with someone, I'm not saying anyone is, we're a little too young, your day is horrible when they are gone, even for a day, then when you finally see them, they lift your spirts and brighten your day. Even if they didn't mean to. You're in love with that person but you wish to tell them how you feel, but it might change the future, you could be friends in the future but your one slip of the tongue ruins your would be future? So you wear a mask, it hides you and your real self. Does anyone ever realize that there's a hopless sap waiting inside your soul for a brief second that you believe the one you can't live without loves you back? Deep inside we all live for that and we all wear that mask. But who would be the one to change that for every one in the world? No one.