Broken people

Some say that people who fall apart inside tend to put on a happy face, like a mask, so that others don't see, how hurt they are. I think it is totally different. I believe that when you live in hell, you need your own way how to preserve sanity. That is why those People turn down the volume of the throbbing pain to barely audible when they meet ordinary People. It is their chance to switch, to have a dose of normality, before they return to the screaming hell of agony. That is why they are fun and easygoing, but they will politely turn down everything that over steps the borderline of the given timeframe.