i think it's about the fact that in being/becoming ourselves, in choosing our jobs and interests and habits and clothes, we're shaping an image as much as a personality - and that there's always a certain amount of tension or fear at the thought that we might be doing it all wrong - that we might not only be making wrong decisions about our lives but systematically creating outer selves that make us even more fundamentally unknowable or wrongly known to others.
i think it's about the fact that in being/becoming ourselves, in choosing our jobs and interests and habits and clothes, we're shaping an image as much as a personality - and that there's always a certain amount of tension or fear at the thought that we might be doing it all wrong - that we might not only be making wrong decisions about our lives but systematically creating outer selves that make us even more fundamentally unknowable or wrongly known to others.