What does it take to be yourself?
Who you are in the virtual world says a lot about who you'd like to be in real life.
I've come to realise that Twitter isn't about being who you really are but who you really wish you were. And this is
true of many I follow. I grow weary of the incessant smart-assed tweets I see on the timeline. More and more, it
appears to that this is little more that a stage. A platform, a soapbox where you come to stand under the spotlight,
do your jig in under 140 characters, and exit. Here, everyone is a stand up comic. Sometimes at the cost of being
the insightful, compassionate human beings that I believe some of us truly are. Or at least have the capacity to be.
I often ask, what does it take to be popular here? Wit, irreverence, that unique turn of phrase? Very likely, yes.
But what does it take to be yourself? Courage.
My next post is all about that, this man,
... and then some.
The opposite of love is not hate.
Don’t you dare ignore me.
Not after you have drawn me in
fingered my feathers
and asked to be mine.
Choose to forget me, and I will shower you with abject petals of indifference.
Oh you will know what you have missed.
I will make it so.
Neruda. What’s not to love?
’And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
… and so beneath my mouth you see again the unfulfilled plant of your life putting out its roots toward my heart that was waiting for you.’
*Images Copyright Mahinn Ali Khan
Why I love… Keep Calm & Carry On
Most of us at some point would have chanced upon the Keep Calm and Carry On poster.
No? I mean this:
A little background, courtesy Wikipedia: Keep Calm and Carry On was a poster produced by the British government in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public under the threat of impending invasion.
It was little known and never used. The poster was rediscovered in 2000 and was then re-issued by a number of private sector companies, and used as the decorative theme for a range of products. There are only two known surviving examples of the poster outside of government archives.
It’s been one of those things that I saw and fell in love with at once. I loved the simplicity. The stunning red and bold type, and most of all, this utterly simple and dignified message that was the very embodiment of what it conveyed. It is to me, an iconic piece of design that lends itself to variations and personalizations that have since, exploded all over the internet. I’ve been delighted by the parodies, of which there have been several, ranging from the clever, to the somewhat funny and borderline retarded, not to mention grammatically questionable.
I am tired of rambling. This is the real reason for this post:
There are more. I will be uploading up shortly. And yes, you’re welcome to download them. Just be nice and don’t forget to give credit where credit is due.
p.s. If you are one of those, “I want to do my own spoofs and dazzle the world too!”, quit whining and go here.
Better than words
I am feeling the surprise of your tongue slipping into my wine-haunted mouth;
pushing with a gentle urgency past my teethWe needn’t speak. This is deeper play than words may create.
