At uni a few weeks ago, in Writing as Communication, we spent the tutorial discussing avatars. And by avatar, I don't mean the shitty film, I mean a representation and projection of ourselves. This topic led to a peculiar discussion and my mortification, but that's a story for another time. But this idea has gotten me thinking about how we represent and project ourselves. Sometimes, we put so much energy into not being something and we desperately try to be something else, something that we're simply not. And other times, we try so hard not to be what we are, for whatever reasons we may have. So do we project the real us with our avatar, or do we show what we want people to see? Maybe we only show part of us, and keep ourselves on a strictly surface level basis with people. Or maybe some people see us beneath the surface, and think they know us completely, but no one has actually ever seen everything that makes up you. Sometimes, we pretend to be something so long, that we actually become it, whether we like it or not. There is more to you than what others see, but who gets to see it all? When will your avatar show a true image of everything about you? Who knows.
Until next time fellow humans....
