Objectified But Unobjectifying
February 24th 2010 05:09
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I wish I could say I was always immune to picking up other people's bad habits, but my imperfections are what make me perfect... if I wasn't constantly striving to improve myself, I wouldn't have any interest in the self-help genre.
Some people have told me in the past that I am too self-indulgent. I say they are seduced by the mirage of living in an objective world, where 'it's not all about me'. Everything that comes from you is about you - you create your world not despite your subjectivity but despite your compulsion to celebrate Objectivity. If you're enjoying savouring the minutiae of your ever-realigning, always-unfolding, perpetually shifting perception, here's incentive to go deeper:
You are irreconcilably yours and yours alone. No other pair of eyes is responsible for the swoops of your eyelashes, and no assumption anyone makes about you is something you should frowningly accept as an imposed form of truth-gathering. There is no truth. You are the only veracity-making machine that could ever conceptualise of itself as objectified. Love yourself, be electrified.
Sometimes I feel a mess inside, but I still love myself deeply. If I look deeper, I realise I am effortlessly alluring - all I need to do is be calm and not try to be something I'm not. Perhaps I am too seduced by others' warped internal fashions.
"I am trying to become more postmodern," a friend of mine sighed. I didn't want to admit it at the time, but I find a lot of inspiration in those words. I am not as comfortable with postmodernism as I'd like to be, and I am constantly reaching for this comfort.
I will keep turning great versions of myself into wonderful ones, and I hope you will join me, my lovely companions.
Some people have told me in the past that I am too self-indulgent. I say they are seduced by the mirage of living in an objective world, where 'it's not all about me'. Everything that comes from you is about you - you create your world not despite your subjectivity but despite your compulsion to celebrate Objectivity. If you're enjoying savouring the minutiae of your ever-realigning, always-unfolding, perpetually shifting perception, here's incentive to go deeper:
You are irreconcilably yours and yours alone. No other pair of eyes is responsible for the swoops of your eyelashes, and no assumption anyone makes about you is something you should frowningly accept as an imposed form of truth-gathering. There is no truth. You are the only veracity-making machine that could ever conceptualise of itself as objectified. Love yourself, be electrified.
Sometimes I feel a mess inside, but I still love myself deeply. If I look deeper, I realise I am effortlessly alluring - all I need to do is be calm and not try to be something I'm not. Perhaps I am too seduced by others' warped internal fashions.
"I am trying to become more postmodern," a friend of mine sighed. I didn't want to admit it at the time, but I find a lot of inspiration in those words. I am not as comfortable with postmodernism as I'd like to be, and I am constantly reaching for this comfort.
I will keep turning great versions of myself into wonderful ones, and I hope you will join me, my lovely companions.
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Comment by Postmodern Critic
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Very thought provoking. My thoughts on this are that in any attempt to categorise ourselves we run the risk of limiting ourselves. We are always capable of more than we think we are, more than we believe we are. Aspirations, goals, objectives etc are one thing, they give us something to strive for. If we categorise ourselves as something in particular then we run the risk of implicitly saying that when I achieve this/become this then I'm finished.
Ironically, I think this also applies even if we categorise ourselves as not to be categorised. The problem is that the nature of our perception of ourselves is altered and potentially limited by the application of labels. Perhaps better to set goals/standards/aspirations for ourselves with the realisation that achieving them, creates an opportunity for growth and change, an opportunity to set higher goals/standards/aspirations for ourselves.