Prompt No. 005 – Outside.
Over the years dressing became a perfectly calculated ritual. Each layer of clothing was carefully chosen to achieve the desired effect of hiding his true self from others.
Plain black trousers, deliberately contrasting the vivid colours of his shirt, were most of the times enough to avert people into believing him to be cold and impersonal.
His life had been hurtful, forcing him to shield himself from further pain by vigorously concealing how vulnerable he actually was.
And so he kept the facade upright, although he knew all too well that safety was nothing but a stale and hollow lie.