Hiding behind false images

    I absolutely loved reading “The Vocabulary of Comics”.  Everything that it said was completely true but I would never actually think of it on my own.  I enjoyed reading the brutal honesty of how humans are so wrapped up in themselves all the time that they somehow manage to see themselves in everything even though we don’t actually see ourselves that often.  I had actually been talking to my mom a few weeks ago about how my brother’s girlfriend was homecoming queen.  When she won, my mom said that she could hear some people asking each other who Kim even was.  My mom then proceeded to go on and on about how teenagers are so self-absorbed and narrow minded that they never bother to get to know people outside of their little “cliques”.  I don’t think that is just teenagers though.  I think that is everyone.  People are too afraid to go out on a limb and meet new people.  Thousands of insecurities seem to pop up out of no where when we are introduced to new people.  We wonder if they like us or what they think of our clothes and the way we speak.  Even the most confident people worry about what others think.

            Insecurities may be what drives people to hide behind their computers and get so obsessed with a second life and creating avatars.  It’s a whole different world where you can be a completely different person.  People get so wrapped up in what they want to be instead of accepting who they really are.  Their second life becomes more important than their real lives and they focus on cultivating relationships that way instead.  It can’t be healthy for people to hide themselves that way.  They need to put themselves out there in their real lives so that they can take chances and have real relationships instead of ones that are based solely on a false image of what they want to be.