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stratospherique

This has been brewing for a while now

Dec 19, 2010 00:45

An Essayrant on Putting All Your Personality Eggs in One Basket

( You can take any of these things away and I am still who I am. I could never bake a batch of cookies again, and I would still be Liza. I could never go to a show again, and while I would be very sad, I would still be who I am. Keep me from singing. Don’t let me be a historian. Take away all of my stilettos and put me in sackcloth. I will get by (feel free to take away my complete inability to flirt though). )

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swear_jar December 19 2010, 09:35:58 UTC

Man, I am not good enough at anything to solely define myself by it. Dodged that bullet, ha. I really agree with you, though. Especially that people who define themselves so intensely by ONE thing tend to be pretty fucking boring.

That said: Blaire now is married to her first and only real boyfriend and works at a tire shop. She dropped out of college entirely.

That doesn't read like a tragic ending to me.

stratospherique December 19 2010, 10:20:30 UTC

I left out a lot about her- from the day I met her in freshman year, her goal had been to get out of our town, go to medical school, and have a career. When I say she was a better student than I ever was, I mean it- I wanted good grades but I was fuckdamn lazy and slid along on being clever. She studied and worked hard and took honors classes and advanced maths and special tests and entered competitions so she could build up her applications. She didn't want to end up like her mom, married to the first guy who came along, working an hourly job for the rest of her life. She wanted to do big things and help people, even if it was just help them have straight teeth. She worked really really really hard at science and math, interned, did everything she could, and then met this guy who was selling vacuums out of the trunk of his car. She dropped out to live at his mom's place.

That's why it's sad, to me at least.

swear_jar December 19 2010, 10:22:20 UTC

Ahhh, okay, yeah, that makes it sound a fuck of a lot worse. D:

stratospherique December 19 2010, 10:28:53 UTC

Also people who define themselves by one thing aren't necessarily very good at that one thing XD It just sort of means they put far too much emphasis on that one thing to the exclusion of other things, and may like the Idea of the Thing rather than the execution (flippant example- i like the Idea of being A Model but I have absolutely no illusions as to my abilities to be A Model). I THINK YOU ARE AWESOME AND GOOD AT MANY THINGS. SO THERE. HI IT IS 2:30 IN THE MORNING AND I AM LOSING TRACK OF MY BRAINS.

swear_jar December 19 2010, 10:45:11 UTC

YOU ARE DOING WELL FOR SENSE-MAKING GIVEN THE HOUR. Past midnight is not a good time to brain.

Also, you are the best damn model on my flist :P.

stratospherique December 19 2010, 10:49:20 UTC

I am merely a practiced camh0r, madam XD I am by no means a profeshunal model like what the band dudes I know date. A talent with the self-timer is all I can claim in that regard (and knowing what sort of light looks best with PASTY PASTY SKIN)

minaloush December 19 2010, 11:26:10 UTC

Ugh, so depressing. Blaire...no. :<

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