What! They were only $1 at Wally World, how could anyone pass that up!

Nothing like being rubbed the wrong way. Especially when it causes chafing.

I'm real.

Really superficial.

Can't you tell???

Yes I can you ego maniac! Ohhh shiny object! brb

i am just a figment of your imagination....a projection of the movie in your mind's eye...

i am something for everyone and sometimes nothing...it all depends on you.

do you look this way? do you see me ?
what part of me do you see?
is it the mirror i often hold, or an image i have designed for you, like the dress i chose today....????????


what is real? can you hold it forever?

if real means fixed....predictable....reliably the same....

i am not real.

i change every time i experience more. I morph.


and what of this "I"....this fabricated and manufactured 'REAL' "I" ???

this "I" that has been conditioned and programmed and educated and indoctrinated by religion and social structures???

is she me? where is the authentic "I" ??? so what is real.... and let's just say one could arrive at an awareness and shed the layers of garments cloaking the original self....

what does that look like ? and who qualifies reality....


if i am discovering myself as i go...if my life is the unfolding journey before me, presenting me with situations that challenge my comfort zone...who will i become?

there are no guarantees


i have been a million mothers in just this lifetime alone
and i am still comforting the child within

i am more wary of attachment to self and a self importance of identity, than dignifying my ego with what the trappings of society dictate.


what is real?

i tend to enjoy the journey rather than the image of the destination

i don't know anymore
about what i thought was real or not real.

I'm real. Got a problem with that? Good. I figured you did. So what are we gonna do about it? Nothing? Are you a non action person? Are you influenced by the idiot box tv or the new idiot box internet? How about your kids and their idiot x box? Don't live in a box. Kill your tv. I did.

You would be surprised at how many people you'd meet if you would get out more. Wow there's a whole world out there! Go figure!

Much love. See you out there.

i am OUT THERE lol

"...do you look this way? do you see me ?
what part of me do you see?
is it the mirror i often hold, or an image i have designed for you, like the dress i chose today....????????


what is real? can you hold it forever?

if real means fixed....predictable....reliably the same....

i am not real..."



How worse can just being yourself be - than pretending to be someone else or 'always-changing-probably'? Being yourself can't be false or changing, so you'll be ahead right there.

You have to think people won't like the *real* you if you bother to design images for people at all.

But hey, who said anyone likes the *fake* you?

Humm well my thoughts on superficial people as far as meaning are ones that portray to be something on the surface they are not within. Why some do it some portray to be tough just in order to get by maybe due to environment were the live and it is a way to survive. Or for the attention they seek of others or at times they want others to notice they are there. They are tired of being in the shadows and by wearing either wild cloths or hai that seems the only way they have found to draw the attention that they seek within. It's not so bad being superficial it is when they get lost and no longer know who they are themselves.

Just try to be tolerant of the people who are just coming to the realization that it is okay to be themselves instead of chameleons. There is usually a good reason people are where they are in their development, and it isn't because they are losers or wimps or wanna be's!

only if people would/could realize it "OK" to be authentic...
Heaven?

Amen!!!

I'm not real, I am a figment of your imagination...I am who you decide me to be.

I am who I decide me to be.

And they are vastly different.

Which is real?

but are they the same....ah ha!!! i would like to think i make all my choices consciously, but that's a bit far fetched lol
i am a whole bunch of things...but that does not mean i am attached to some identity , or that any are more or less real than each other


maybe i need to be a little specific...for those that don't know me at all.

my lifestyle puts me in extreme contrasts, working with emergency medicine , in the field and in violent circumstances, in extreme conditions.

and then Amsterdam, organized and engineered meticulously in so many ways, abundance and indulgence abound, from the RedLight to the diamond houses, to the junkies in the streets

i dive back into the bureaucracy and my private practice and mothering a young teenager, directing an organization and running a household.

indeed i have different identities.... different WHOLE WORLDS that i bounce in and out of at least 3 times a year

who am i?


when i am sitting here with all of you, i leave the doctor in the practice.
when i am in Amsterdam i do my best to be in amsterdam, not in the field somewhere always keeping the wounds open...

i don't bring that into this...unless i need to... like now.

but indeed i am so different there than here. it's what i observe.
it never occurred to me that one cancelled the other out.

that one was real or more a part of me ... hmmmm


are we really so definable???

and so ...what qualifies whether we are real or not?

as we shed the layers of our illusions....

i thought i knew who i was..until i became someone i didn't know could ever exist in me.... that popped that illusion...and it works on both sides of the coin....

I thought this would be a simple topic....until I read everyone's posts. Woooh!
When I think of 'real' people, I think of people that are upfront and hide little or nothing. People that will act as they always have, even when it becomes that time in their lives when they feel the need to impress someone.
In regards to being actual genuine humans...we all are. No matter your gender, color, race, sexual preferance, or whatnot. There are no subhumans. And unfortunatly, there are people who will try to make others feel that way. As they only are comforted by dominating or intimidating others. I think that when people try to impress these types, it often leads to that 'unreal' personnality.
People are two-faced and give false impressions to hide their own discomfort. It's also a sign of a low self-esteem. Though that doesn't mean that if you have a low self-esteem you're false. Mine isn't very high, but I'm straight forward, blunt, and bold. Maybe too much, sometimes.
~ if I'm wrong, feel free to lay the smack down on me. I take critism well.~

To be real does not mean you are not multi-faceted. Everyone has many facets to their personality. To be real is to honestly put them forward and let people see them as they are in their true brilliance. JMO

I'm always just me. Take me or leave me. I always try to bring a smile and like a smile returned....... simple me