Live Your Life Be Free!

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Originally uploaded by ®oger.

It’s still really cold out in Toronto – I found this moody picture that depicts how it is when you are so bundled up and walking into the snowy darkness as an anonymous figure. The thick coat covers the form of this woman’s body with the dark and snow to further obstruct recognizability. I’ve been thinking a lot about dipping into the pool of anonymity and how people can pretty much restart their lives in a new form – erasing their past and becoming a new person in the eyes of others. Or – how people, many people I know, can live double or triple lives – showing different faces to everyone.

But… just like this morose scene does not last forever, neither does the cloak of anonymity. The season will change to summer. The winter duds will come off and the days will be longer. Who will she be? vibrant? thougthful? happy? shy? is she a dancer? is she an office worker? Who knows… but eventually the truth comes out – or she’d look rather conspicuous, wearing a thick winter coat and carrying an umbrella in the middle of summer. I believe it is the same with people who try to live double lives – they show their true selves… or their winter coats trying to hide who they really are stand out and look obvious.