what you really want is an audience who knows that you don't know that they know that you're there
Sometimes when I go shopping, I become tired of the world. I wonder why I'm looking at shirts, shoes, dresses that are the last thing that i really need. I get so apathetic about clothing/style, etc. I realize in those moments that we're deluding ourselves into thinking that expressing our own image, or comforming to another person's is more important than it actually is. How much money and time have I spent shopping? And to how many other more important things could I put both of those to use? Of course, this is being completely and unrealistically idealistic. I will always shop and spend money on clothes that I don't need. But at these times I feel like I, and most of the world, just do that too much. We're all trying to impress someone who's no better than ourselves, someone who simultaneously is trying their hardest to impress us.