Faces
I forgot to elaborate on the "concerns" I talked about in my previous post.
Essentially it centers on privacy and the faces we put on to interact with different people.
My main concern is people keep on saying, be careful what you put on your blog. Employers are looking into that and facebook, etc. etc. And all that has been floating around for the past few years... nothing really new.
But still, I think I do a good job of keeping some things to myself, only the very few. Mostly because I value openness. Some people think I keep too much to myself, though. I think only really because I'm really not keeping it secret, but that I don't understand it myself either or am ambivalent about something. This sounds vague... But I guess it's like if someone asks me what I think about something or how I feel about something and I just shrug my shoulders, I'm not trying to hide anything, I really just don't know, don't care or it wouldn't have made a positive contribution to the conversation if I said anything.
Digression is the enemy of blog entries.
So really, I guess, it's not about privacy as much as the masks and faces that we wear everyday.
Like superheroes.
Spiderman is my favorite superhero and superman is not too shabby either (notice both are journalists).
As with a lot of superheros, privacy and identity are issues exaggerated from very real issues that we as commonfolk face.
I rememeber watching a special once where the psychology of a superhero was being analyzed. What I remember from it was that we have a different identity at work, at home, with our friends, with our lovers, etc. Much like the alter-egos of Peter Parker and Clark Kent.
Eventually we are faced with a dilemma. Am I Spiderman or am I Peter Parker?
Similiarly, should my life dictate my job or should my job dictate my life?
What do I put first? My career, my family, my friends, my religion, my political beliefs....
I went to Target the other day with a friend and this girl. We walked down an aisle and saw one of those ornaments that says "FAMILY" and other that says "friends" in a block of wood.
They happen to be next to literally a bundle of sticks (which you can gather in the woods in like 10 minutes) that was priced at 30 dollars...
But that's not the point. Matt pulled on the "friends" block and said to Liz: "The difference between you and me and is that I value this and you value this [pointing at the "FAMILY" block as he spoke the last three words]"
And I thought about me, what do I value? (Why is it always about me? I don't like thinking about it. It's kind of selfish..)
And I didn't know. I know my family would say I value my friends more. My gut instincts tell me that too. But the way I have lived my life doesn't necessarily say that. Family is still important to me. I have an obligation to that above really anything else. But that doesn't mean I have to talk to you everyday or do special things for you all the time. You already know that you are special and important to me and that's nothing for me that can make our relationship be anything else. It's permanent and always there. I think that's I try to put more effort on my friends, the fear that it's not permanent and that it might, as it has in the past, fade away.
I don't know where I am going with this. This post was too heavy and pointless.
In a nutshell:
1. Be care what to put on blogs and facebook pages. But use them to network.
2. The beginnings of an identity crisis?
Essentially it centers on privacy and the faces we put on to interact with different people.
My main concern is people keep on saying, be careful what you put on your blog. Employers are looking into that and facebook, etc. etc. And all that has been floating around for the past few years... nothing really new.
But still, I think I do a good job of keeping some things to myself, only the very few. Mostly because I value openness. Some people think I keep too much to myself, though. I think only really because I'm really not keeping it secret, but that I don't understand it myself either or am ambivalent about something. This sounds vague... But I guess it's like if someone asks me what I think about something or how I feel about something and I just shrug my shoulders, I'm not trying to hide anything, I really just don't know, don't care or it wouldn't have made a positive contribution to the conversation if I said anything.
Digression is the enemy of blog entries.
So really, I guess, it's not about privacy as much as the masks and faces that we wear everyday.
Like superheroes.
Spiderman is my favorite superhero and superman is not too shabby either (notice both are journalists).
As with a lot of superheros, privacy and identity are issues exaggerated from very real issues that we as commonfolk face.
I rememeber watching a special once where the psychology of a superhero was being analyzed. What I remember from it was that we have a different identity at work, at home, with our friends, with our lovers, etc. Much like the alter-egos of Peter Parker and Clark Kent.
Eventually we are faced with a dilemma. Am I Spiderman or am I Peter Parker?
Similiarly, should my life dictate my job or should my job dictate my life?
What do I put first? My career, my family, my friends, my religion, my political beliefs....
I went to Target the other day with a friend and this girl. We walked down an aisle and saw one of those ornaments that says "FAMILY" and other that says "friends" in a block of wood.
They happen to be next to literally a bundle of sticks (which you can gather in the woods in like 10 minutes) that was priced at 30 dollars...
But that's not the point. Matt pulled on the "friends" block and said to Liz: "The difference between you and me and is that I value this and you value this [pointing at the "FAMILY" block as he spoke the last three words]"
And I thought about me, what do I value? (Why is it always about me? I don't like thinking about it. It's kind of selfish..)
And I didn't know. I know my family would say I value my friends more. My gut instincts tell me that too. But the way I have lived my life doesn't necessarily say that. Family is still important to me. I have an obligation to that above really anything else. But that doesn't mean I have to talk to you everyday or do special things for you all the time. You already know that you are special and important to me and that's nothing for me that can make our relationship be anything else. It's permanent and always there. I think that's I try to put more effort on my friends, the fear that it's not permanent and that it might, as it has in the past, fade away.
I don't know where I am going with this. This post was too heavy and pointless.
In a nutshell:
1. Be care what to put on blogs and facebook pages. But use them to network.
2. The beginnings of an identity crisis?
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