Cloud-uk
Master Don Juan
We all play a role.
Identity is one of the rocks of life. We find comfort in our personhood. Standing alone, we look at ourselves and marvel at our distinctness. We are an individual, I am a story, a living record of a life, with dreams and desires. When we feel let down, feel despair, we can look at ourselves and find strength in our persistance. We are still here. We are still us.
We all play a roll, and we find comfort in it. This is who we are, have been, and always will be.
Of course that is all a pile of ****. Your personhood is nothing but the tentative link between one moment and the next. Every second you become a different person. Every day you are a totally different individual to the one that woke the previous morning.
There is a battle in everyone between breaking new barriers and reclining into comfort. Just because you have the same name as the man who woke the previous morning doesn't make you him. You may admire him, or hate him, but you are not him.
We feel a fear of "acting out of character". We are bombarded with advice not to be fake, to be yourself. We are goaded into the comfortable monotony of trying to be the same as the man who woke the morning before.
We all play a role. I tend to play the joker. Spread a pack of cards, there are a lot of suits to try on, a lot of roles to play. Nature doesn't see you a baby and ordane you should stay that way forever. Go with it, try everything out. The joker doesn't get used in all the games. The joker doesn't fit me anymore. The joker doesn't get a suit, and I look good in a suit.
It's not being fake if your present role doesn't fit. You may be comfortable in it, but we're all here to break down boundaries. Don't want to give up the rock of timeless identity? Never said it would be easy.
Anyway, I'm going to try on the King. May mean less jokes, less comfort, some new chalenges and lessons, but that's where I want to be. We all play roles, but are you in the right one?
Identity is one of the rocks of life. We find comfort in our personhood. Standing alone, we look at ourselves and marvel at our distinctness. We are an individual, I am a story, a living record of a life, with dreams and desires. When we feel let down, feel despair, we can look at ourselves and find strength in our persistance. We are still here. We are still us.
We all play a roll, and we find comfort in it. This is who we are, have been, and always will be.
Of course that is all a pile of ****. Your personhood is nothing but the tentative link between one moment and the next. Every second you become a different person. Every day you are a totally different individual to the one that woke the previous morning.
There is a battle in everyone between breaking new barriers and reclining into comfort. Just because you have the same name as the man who woke the previous morning doesn't make you him. You may admire him, or hate him, but you are not him.
We feel a fear of "acting out of character". We are bombarded with advice not to be fake, to be yourself. We are goaded into the comfortable monotony of trying to be the same as the man who woke the morning before.
We all play a role. I tend to play the joker. Spread a pack of cards, there are a lot of suits to try on, a lot of roles to play. Nature doesn't see you a baby and ordane you should stay that way forever. Go with it, try everything out. The joker doesn't get used in all the games. The joker doesn't fit me anymore. The joker doesn't get a suit, and I look good in a suit.
It's not being fake if your present role doesn't fit. You may be comfortable in it, but we're all here to break down boundaries. Don't want to give up the rock of timeless identity? Never said it would be easy.
Anyway, I'm going to try on the King. May mean less jokes, less comfort, some new chalenges and lessons, but that's where I want to be. We all play roles, but are you in the right one?
