On Profiles

Righto! So. thanks for stopping by. I'd offer you a drink but you'd have to get it yourself.

So, What have you been keeping yourself busy with lately? I ask because I'm curious.

So let's talk about our profiles, just for a minute.  When asked to describe myself in several words, I pause for a moment to consider any possible consequences. Can I be sure that I'm not giving away more than a silly secret or a few linked thoughts? Important stuff.

The problem that I've seen a lot of people joke about and make reference to, one which we're all part of, and you can weigh in on this with me- is that of people branding themselves through our new virtual media.

That's not to say that branding is necessarily a bad concept. What we're all kind of apprehensive about is actually something that can be used positively, if we use a bit of skill in our summations- namely what we identify ourselves with.

This ever expanding medium has created a vastly complicated, and unmistakably interconnected world, a world where not only is there a seemingly infinite reach, there is also a level playing field.

This world of zeroes and ones is primordial in a sense, fertile and pure like a petri dish. Society's principles have followed onto this new infinite medium. We see these norms and institutions clamoring to hang on and vying to infest and conquer before personal empowerment gets out of hand.

We see that game for what it is - but only because something broader is being distributed freely for anyone's use - Pure possibility. The ability to define ourselves however we please. Every day. begin again. Turn the page. Again.

utopia, or disutopia.

Regardless, it is as flexible as the imagination, and with our increasing daily connection with new technologies and new capabilities, identities are understandably becoming ever entwined with the words we've left behind on someone's comment board.

“What will those look like in a month or two?

What if i say this now, and i'm a different person then?”

We're constantly creating and shattering identities, only to recreate them any number of ways.

Sometimes we redefine them all the more neurotically like a mansion of cards.

Or, there can arise a quest to become remembered - to always say the right thing, to crystallize many moments of glory and pass them along.

Or perhaps driven by fear that we may make mistakes and look bad, we never take chances. Trivialized. Reduced to small talk and vagueries. 'Doing fines' and 'How are you doings'. 'Friday was a blast's and 'lets catch up soon's.

Safe, but flavorless.

Or we become like the wind. Undefinable Even by the words we say. Making certain that we can slip out of our clothes at any time and that all of the words and thoughts will stay with them.

What is created again and again is A possibility to redefine ourselves. To plot our dreams.to blur.toexpand.

every time we put our words down.

Every time we change our picture.

We argue the case of tomorrow.

If you gotta brand yourself, brand yourself as becoming

Brand yourself as a student of life, thirsty to be corrected

Brand yourself a creator