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WrongState — At 41 years old
Published: 2011-07-24 19:18:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1789; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 39
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At 41 I have a hard time believeing that not only do I look like this, but that I'm still discovering new things...I love my custom made collar
and yes this is a cell phone pic... muahhaha, all sorts of camera everywhere...
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Lol, I'm 42.. thank you, I've worked hard at this look
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Oh well you do look good for being 42. Once again pretty damn good genes
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Thank you, I've had to show my ID a few times at a few events I've been to, I wish it upon everyone
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Well people think i am 18 or 19 and im 24
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I saw, and I can understand that... keep up the great work
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I feel bad because I am 28 and I look 35, I wished I would age more like you, wow. Also does the little bone say Wrongstate on it?
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well you're not alone, I'm a rarity, and I have no secrets as to how I look like this, well maybe other than the job I've been doing almost 20 years.
Actually one side says "Good Boy" nicely printed, the other "Bad Boy" rough etched. pending on how I feel that day I'll flip it..
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Very interesting... seems to reflect you and all the change, experimentation, growth in your life. I like it! -M
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YUP YUP.. love change, and for the better, no hiding the real me....
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My friend,
You wrote in your comment:
"no hiding the real me"
Indeed.
I struggle with this. I find that all my aspects are me, and I want to have them integrated. But the world has trouble with this (or may try to eat us alive if we present ourselves in our entirety in all worldly venues).
We are trying to know, find, experience ourselves, in our entirety/wholeness. The world believes in and wants separation.
Artists often transparently explore and present the whole, which the world has trouble with. The world may want to eat us alive if we do this.
How important is our struggle to us. It is very important to us, and to the world too, if it only knew it. When we are courageously ourselves, we sort of inspire the world to do the same. We sort of give the world permission to do the same.
Yet we must be prepared to be eaten alive for doing this.
Maybe, of course, there is a time and a place for everything. But I think that artists in particular, deal with this question. We sort of hold a mirror up to ourselves and to the world. It is a big part of our function.
Some of us, like me, rather withdraw, for protection, peace, nurturance, balance, rest. I had my time out in the world,and now I sort of explore on my own, listen to my muse in my little art hermitage (and present my journey to a few choice souls to whom I show myself (and my journey/creating/creations)... like my students who enter my hermitage for lessons and glimpse me hanging on the walls there, like my readers and viewers here on DA, etc.
It is always, I find a struggle to discern how much of ourselves to show and to whom. I have struggled with it more in the past. Now that I have withdrawn almost completely from the world (and just do my creating, exploring, and a little teaching here in my "art hermitage") it is less and less of an issue.
But still, this issue of "no hiding he real me" as you have put it (or "free to be you and me" as Marlo Thomas would say!) rears its head. Sometimes I still struggle with how much to reveal and to whom.
I want, eventually, to just be completely myself, and not to worry about:
"To whom can I show myself, and how much is ok?"
"I want to share myself completely transparently, but will I get eaten alive if I do so (and how do I feel about that)?"
I think these are very artisty questions.
-Merton
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I'd say this is me in a nutshell, however, that'd be only if I was to paraphrase this. Well written, and a lovely read. I know I can only show those select few all of me. and so man request to see everything, but for some reason I pull back more and more for every request. Heck I wish I could show on here more of me, however, I do get tired of the negative comments.
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WuHoo! 41; next year you'll be: "The Answer to the Ultimate Question... of Life.. The Universe and Everything... " -Deep Thought, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Lol yes I know it's permanently on my computer...
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"At 41 I have a hard time believeing that not only do I look like this, but that I'm still discovering new things..."
Yup like how to keep your pants pulled up, how to zip them, and how to keep them buttoned.
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I dont' know if I should be insulted by this or dismiss this as you trying to be humorous? coming from such a young "mistress"
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I do like being a smart ass ^^
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Oh, it's hard to read it like that in this format...
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Yes I know lol its hard at times out to take text. Anyway you look nice in glasses.
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Well I do agree, thank you I appreciate that
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