I like alcohol, it is my vice. Occasionally I take some time off from drinking, a mini-Lent, and let my body detox. Not that I party hard these days--in a wild night I might have three or four drinks--but it's an exercise in mindfulness.
So I have been thinking about the topic of purification this week. In a splendid display of serendipity, Boing Boing tackled the topic of Personal Transformations in the Internet Age yesterday. We humans have a need to reinvent ourselves. But it's difficult to create a new identity when the shed skins from our past lives are littered around the Internet for all to see.
I think a lot (probably too much) about my online identity. What should I link where, how candid should I be, who will read this and what will they think of me? Is it ironic that I am most sincere on a (semi-)anonymous blog, that I only feel free to be totally myself in a place where nobody knows who I am?
Cleanse
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i think you are more you in person than on here*, as this could be any hipster and you are infinitely more fun and interesting than cualquier hipster :)
*but what do i know?**
**come on, i know. ;)
Hey mysterious stranger, thanks, I guess! Do you really think of me as a hipster? I'm not sure how I feel about that.
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