While commenting on Go Figure's last post, I saw something that really caught my attention, and now, my mind is taking off like it goes when one is sitting here typing at 5 AM, with an oxygen hose resting on my lip, and maybe I am getting too much oxygen now, and my brain is getting fried.
Anyway, I am getting off of the subject.While commenting on GF's page the words were "choose an identity"
Wow, like, heavy , man. Like no one has ever let me choose my own identity before. We go though life telling everyone that this and this is who we are. But, the sad truth remains , that you are only the social product of the five agents of socialization. Hey, I studied sociology years ago in college, and I can still name the five agents of socialization. No use letting those thousands and thousands of dollars spent on tuition go to waste. I remember very little else out of all those soc. courses, but those I remember.
Back to the today. Today, I get to choose an identity, because GF's blog page said that I could.
Wow, who can I be today? Maybe I could be a playboy, or a millionaire, or a baseball star, or a teacher, or a ----you know what.? At my age, I think that I will settle for being me. I choose my own identity. I think that I have earned it.
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I had always thought that there was some type of Divine order to this chaos. I always wanted to believe that everything happened for a purpo...
3 comments:
Cedar: Crank back the oxygen level me lad. HA! You have confused the geebeezes out of me. (guess that is kind of a normal state though)HA. I do agree, however, that you deserve to be you...there is no better you than you. Without you think of all the "other" that wouldn't be today. Wow, I need to turn the old O2 down myself. I guess I need more beer. HA
Wow, That was heavy, man Reminds me of the time some of us were sitting under a Christmas tree smoking a little has-i-h and watching the lights blink and twinkle and blink and twinkle, and blink and twinkle, whoops, I digress.
See, GF, look right below here, it says"choose an identity? Really, it does, I am not joking.
well. it is not below here now,,, now it is one the side of here.
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