Sunday, June 1, 2008

Overthinking the Avatar

This avatar thing is just a stand-in, till I get the courage to commit my image to film and share it with the world. But the avatar is the only visual representation I have here, so it's doing a lot of work symbolically. Today I realized I have it all wrong.

Stephanie Warrior Princess commented here the other day, and I subsequently visited her page. This is someone who knows how to live, and embraces the world. Her avatar is an excellent reflection of who she is. So what about my gal over there?

My female self lives a very quiet, lonely existence. So I put my avatar in the most remote place made available, Easter Island. I thought I was choosing this locale as a bit of quirky whimsy (a specialty of mine). But no, I was isolating my avatar just as I isolate myself. It's a good thing there wasn't an Antarctic research station available, or a Mars lander, because that's where she'd be.

So, in the hopes of changing my karma and retrieving my mojo, I plan to change the avatar. Maybe she can lead me to a better place if I let her mingle with other people. I wonder if there's a transgender support group background?

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