Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Europa Poets' Gazette, No 69, January 2010

MY VIEW with Michael Garrad
Are we genuine about who we are? I think not.
We are as we wish to be seen. We comply with rules, written and unwritten.
We are products of what society expects of us.
We let our hair down, fired by the adrenaline of alcohol; we shop, sombre and focused on prices; we are the model of decorum at work; we love designer outfits at the gym, or just walking the streets. We are an image!
And the reason we are this image is because we have no choice. We must conform.
How different it is behind closed doors where, briefly, we can be ourselves. But, then, are we truly who we are, even in front of our children and, perhaps most important of all, with our partner? Are we ever able to be individual?

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