Took this passionflower this afternoon (after 2 nights of frost!)
The start of the week was so bad I didn't feel like I could inflict it on you...
But here are my Thursday thoughts:
At risk of sounding like a pop-psych cliché, I have an alter ego. One of me travels alone; she likes to flirt with thirty-somethings; she gives Marilyn Monroe and Anne Robinson impressions at the dinners of international conferences; she sings the Ode to Joy, Seven Drunken Nights and Bohemian Rhapsody in Viennese bierkellers, dances on the tables in Brussels bars; and strolls round the Coliseum at midnight. The other does the minutes for the Parish Council; takes photos of her garden; makes pastry and Christmas puddings from scratch; paints her own Christmas cards and likes to cross-stitch while listening to talking books on the radio; curls up in bed by 10:00PM with a mug of cocoa and a good book. The former doesn’t get out much any more, but when she does, she still knows how to party. Concerned neighbours fret about the latter, telling her she needs to get a little part time job to get her out of the house, broaden her horizons and expand her interests, when what she really wants is the Nobel Prize (for literature, peace or economics, she’s not fussed which.)
Question: which is the ego and which is the alter???
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Don't alter either, leave them as they are, they are what make you a whole person. You've seen my sensualist writings - and let me tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet, there's some REAL adventures coming up soon, but the other part of me is a caring father and pillar of my business and local community.
Our personae are multi-faceted, but most of the people who meet us see only one or two faces of the rare jewel that is us. Indeed many of us only admit to ourselves the existence of just one or two faces. Most of us have minor blemishes, but that simply enhances our uniqueness.
I hope that in time we are all able to publicly admit to being whole people.
2005-11-18 @ 06:40
I agree with K&A. Couldn't put it any better. Multi-faceted.
 | isadora101 [Member] 2005-11-18 @ 10:06 |
I know how you feel, keep them both in equal measure.
 | jojo52 [Member] 2005-11-18 @ 19:05 |
We are all many people - I think some of the problems definitely arise when some facets get more attention than others.
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