Personas
TSG is a great persona, she likes to drink and go out and be a bit wild at times. I have been told that TSG is about 60% me and the rest is the persona. She is by some accounts the most fun version of me. Even GB, OQB, The Lady, and Awesome are only the pieces that I have selected to show you the reader.
My current favourite blogs are the ones by people I don’t know and will never know because, like me they have chosen to write anonymously. Their stories are wonderful and the life they show me is very colourful. It is fun to think if I ever met them in “real life” if we could ever figure out that we have been friends for months, reading and commenting to one another on life, love and other random thoughts. Or would our face to face personas be so different that we would not know?
I got to thinking about all of this because I read a blog entry by the SSM – I should know better, I know – and I thought this isn’t the man I know. Who is this, and who is he trying to kid with this kind of talk? And then I realized, this is his writing persona, and the bravado well I have some armchair psychology theories, but I will keep them to myself for today. And really if he ever read TSG, he would probably wonder, who the hell is this woman and why is she so brash?
It is fascinating to me that in this digital age when you can put your life on the internet for all to read or see, what it is that each of us choose to put out there – if anything at all. The persona each of us has picked to give to the world, the things we show, the things we hide and the pieces of our life we choose to highlight to make the story worth reading, the picture more interesting or the blog worth having.
Today as I sit in front of my computer in my Sunday clothes I feel much like the 40% that isn’t TSG and for today that is just fine.
Sincerely,
Me
4 comments:
And it is not surprising that TSG has a great attraction to theatre and to the magic of a stage production. Ah as Will said all the world is a stage and what great fun it is to be able to play the part that WE CHOOSE some of the time, because often the roles we are cast in are much more difficult.
Heard today that life is like driving at night, you can only see a few feet in front of you, thanks to the headlights, but you can make the entire journey that way!! Likely a blessing.
Aw thanks. You know I almost didn't post this because it is less TSG persona and more info about ME than I usually post. But it was too sweet not to put up.
way to be. (being you that is.)
Thanks ... it is pretty good to be me. Somedays I just need to remind myself of that fact.
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