It scares me so much how good we are at pretending to be normal. To be put together. To be fine, just fine. At one level, it's just faking our way through job interviews and winging it on the actual job, no one being any the wiser that you have no clue what you're doing. A bit of confidence and a smirk can do wonders. But at another level, it's being suicidal with a chirp in your voice, depressed with a bounce in your step. Your best friend could want to hurt herself and you wouldn't even know. Your friend could call you for lunch just so he could shoot you and himself, a la the most recent shooting, and you would have no. Fucking. Clue.
And it scares me that you're just pushed more and more towards that pretended normalcy, towards uniformity, towards hiding your flaws and your humanity. Towards not being "weird." Towards harming yourself and those around you.
How we learn to flick away compliments and stick to insults, how we're so uncritical while believing criticism. And how much it can get to us.
I'm just very scared of the insides of peoples minds, and how it often has no connection at all to the outside.
~Sam
This echoes my thoughts so perfectly :O do you think it's perhaps the greatest side effect of the digital age? I mean, we all wear a mask all the time, everyday - let's say, while tapping those happy smileys on our phone screens while our state of mind is ANYthing but that.
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I don't know if it's a side-effect of the digital age- I would argue it's always existed. The digital age definitely makes it easier though.
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