I have a professor that is one cool dude. His name is Professor Dansokho and I’m not even sure if I spelled that right, but it is definitely a cool name. Even though I’m not sure I can pronounce it.

You can tell that he a spiritual type of guy by the way he talks. He has this African accent, but it sounds like it has a twist of British in it like he learned how to speak English from Mary Poppins or something. And he uses these words like “Peace” and “Rejoice” and “Harmony” and “Justice” all the time. When he says words like this, it makes me want to give all my food and money and post-it notes to the poor—and then go live in a utopian society for the rest of my life.

He is from Senegal in Africa and it is okay if you do not know where that is, because I had to look up a map on the internet to find it. I didn’t believe it was a real place at first. I thought that this was just some trick that they played on newbie students, but I looked it up and sure enough, it is there.

            Anyway, he is a really nifty guy. He wears traditional African garments which actually look something like bathrobes. I think that they are fantastic. I believe that if everyone wore clothes like that every day, everyone would be more relaxed and not feel fat and not get wedgies and not really care about appearance at all. But who knows.

He told us today in class that we should “take off our masks” and be ourselves. And I believe that, but for some reason I couldn’t think about it properly until I got out of class because all I was thinking about in class was how different life would be today if we had all come to school in our pajamas.

But I do like the idea of “taking off our masks.” I believe that most of the time many of us live false lives. We pretend to be someone who we are not—just to prove to others that we are not bad or evil or insane or anything like that. So we have masks to hide ourselves.

There is really nothing to hide. We are all human. We are all imperfect. And that’s the way it is. So, my friends, let’s practicing taking off our masks occasionally and showing our true selves to others—who knows, someone might just like your bathrobe.