Is Your Life More About Artfulness Or Artifice?
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“There’s little things you hide and little things that you show.”
~ George Michael, from his song “I Want Your Sex”
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Is Your Life More About Artfulness Or Artifice?
~ by OneMoreOption
I loved George Michael’s album “Faith”. There are few albums I could sit through, listening to every song, then starting over and doing it again. I’d sit in my car, day after day, singing through every song. The emotion. The melodic qualities. The candor. The unreasonableness. The hyperbole. The incredible vocal abilities. Pure pop. I wasn’t alone in liking the album. It sold over 25 million copies worldwide.
George Michael’s album Faith on Wikipedia
George Michael was a gay man, playing the real life role of a teenage girl’s dream. He wasn’t the first guy to play that part, nor the last.
It’s often difficult to distinguish between artfulness and artifice, because sometimes artifice is so very artful.
Is your life these days more about creating art or maintaining artifices? What things do you hide? What things do you show?
Sometimes you think you’re gonna get it, but you don’t and that’s just the way it goes.
If your life has to hide so much that you can no longer show yourself to most people, then what do you do? Rinse and repeat?
Lock the door? Get a bigger dog? Buy a gun to keep you warm?
“A policeman put on his uniform
He’d like to have a gun just to keep him warm
Because violence here is a social norm
You’ve got to humanize yourself “
~ The Police, from their song “Rehumanize Yourself” from their album “Ghost In The Machine”.
Is your reality artful? Could you share it with anyone? Do you show it to those close to you? With friends or family? If not, why not?
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Yes you are right. The question raised is beyond the bars. I am creative, but i cannot share it with my close one, i.e. family and friends. There is a notion of they wouldn’t understand they are bound by rules, by the rules of the civilized society. But if they could understand that this too is a bi-product of their own society, they could probably get it better.
I like the way i manipulate life towards a creative one. There is a sense of me in everything i do. That may be wrong or right. But discussing and arguing doesn’t change yourself.
I am deprived of love. Every time I ran after one, it turned out to be a mirage. being dumped is not a part of routine. But that doesn’t bother me anyone. I have my own world of dreams from which i don’t want to come back. i am asleep I wish to be woken up only when, my other-part (partner) wakes me up for a better life. I may sound foolish, but its me.
There is a lot depth in me, which my words betray. I cant write what i feel.
Things change, and they would change in my case too. But the matter of the fact of sharing articulture in you, with close ones seems distant. Relations bound at times.
Let me know what you feel reading this.
Love,
Harsh
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Mark: Fascinating. It sounds authentic. “Articulture” – a new term to me. Coincidentally, I have been thinking a lot about abandonment issues, “Every time I ran after one, it turned out to be a mirage.”
I believe there are some individuals for whom 90% or more of other people could pursue them and ultimately their love would not be returned, individuals who are incapable of returning dedicated love. I could be wrong. I say this to say, the odds a person could attempt to create a loving bond with several of these individuals (in one lifetime) are pretty good, considering these individuals tend to remain single. The mysteries and methods are beyond my education and abilities.
Reblogged this on Harsh Thakkar's Blog and commented:
true! very true..