Editor's Blog Feb 22nd 2012
The big Identity Crisis.
This morning I awoke feeling a bit strange. I did what I always do when I feel that way. I rode around to the eastern side of Gibraltar and watched the sunrise.
Watching something that has happened every day for a few billion years tends to put things into perspective. Any feelings I have of losing my grip on reality tend to disappear when that big fiery ball rises from the horizon in all its glory. You cannot get more real than trillions and trillions of tons of flaming hot hydrogen hanging in the sky.
Why Would I be feeling strange, I hear you ask? Well because for a few months now I have been metamorphosing into a wholly new person: New job, new relationships and new physical appearance. I looked in the mirror and asked myself who are you? To reply truthfully I say I do not know.
What I am at my core is basically still the same but I sometimes feel myself losing that too. So I revert to doing something that I have done with regularity most of my life, watch the sunrise. It is one thing that has always been there consistently while other things change.
As I jump back on to my bike and ride to work my mind feels more at ease as I begin to focus on what I have to achieve today, leaving behind any self-doubts.
Switching on the computer I check all the social media and notice that while we are who we are, we tend to want other people to see us in the best possible way.
Take Facebook for instance, looking at it you see everyone having fun looking their best and judging by a lot of the status updates we are all rock stars living the highlife but behind this veneer people must surely be going through some life issues? And if they are you can’t really tell. So are we just all pretending to be funny, popular, deep and meaningful?
And if that is the case who the hell are you really?
Ed.
