People pose, and play roles everyday. They put on pretenses often in ordinary life, both deliberately and from habit. It
can have both positive and negative aspects.
Consider a situation. At a party, where everyone is anonymous or playing outlandish roles, what you know for sure is that you do not know anyone. You discover that others are putting on acts, just as you are. You have the fun of guessing and sensing the tension between the real and the make believe. It is human nature to use anonymity, role-play to create a liberating and fun party atmosphere.
It is also a way of revealing yourself to yourself; what are you willing to say and do, when no one you know will ever know about it.
Once you enter the party, there is social pressure to join the fun. You depart from your normal behaviour and expectations of yourself. When you have
problems, role-playing enables you to forget about them, because there is no way to be
miserable at the party. Sometimes it helps you to separate from the unpleasant reality.
It can be positive on the one hand, but on the other, it can become very dangerous. Let us look at the opposite. People can easily lose their sense of themselves as having an identity separate from those roles.
What is more, playing roles requires consciously, monitoring everything, you say, and that causes anxiety.
In the 21st century, there is no place for being weak, and revealing your problems. Despite your misgivings, everything must go like clockwork. It is quite sure, that people more and more often are fed up with pretending repeatedly. In friendship, family what you need is reality and peace. When you play a role even then, you completely lose yourself and eventually you get miserable.
To sum up, playing roles may bring benefits if it happens from time to time, but in the end, it does nothing, but harm.