People Watching

Ever walked along a road that presents several glass encased establishments? Beauty parlors, insurance offices, restaurants, shops displaying life for any bystander to witness. These are some of the stages on which we act, and yet anyone can view, even stare and analyze these vulnerable moments. True, most individuals' personalities are fluid depending upon the stage in which they currently reside, however, sectors of their personalities these incidences remain. Imagine your home. Now imagine your home's walls constructed from plexiglas. Daunting, no? Even with mere imagination, you are intimidated by the thought of constant disruption of privacy--I say YOU respectively, for some are easier to accept such a display, especially if their personality attributes are less fluid, more consistent across various stages. These individuals' fear stems from the possibility of being proven a phony. The at home me is much different from the in class me, for I understand these stages has requiring particular behaviors and motives that are beneficial in that particular scene's success, as well as mine within it. Of course some of my moods lend me the opportunity to be careless of the requirements and be whom I currently feel to be. Retreating back to the point of being proven a phony, if these individuals, like me, have established images in different scenarios, then a constant analysis of the home will show a side unseen elsewhere, and therefore may give evidence to a fraud. Retreating farther yet, I mentioned stores on a given street allow perception of individuals in various masks. Despite recognizing these are stages separate from the home, they still help represent an individual, like pieces to a large puzzle. With that, I find it incredibly counter intuitive that we are essentially okay with being on display, but not within the home. All are puzzle pieces, all should be treated equally, UNLESS the home is a profound sector trumping all others. The home could be an individual's workplace, haunt, or the like, and I suspect if the previous is true then the home is based upon the fact in itself that it trumps all other arenas in vulnerability. This vulnerability has to do with who a person thinks they are. If they are completely unclear on who they are, and suffering from a non-defined inner-being, then the vulnerability could be that exact truth, that they fear others will discover they do not have a complete self concept, or that the others will discover it before the individual can. However, I still find it odd to look into the windows of these stores and briefly peer in at lives. It is as if I am, even for only a small sector, able to be apart of those lives, witnessing histories created, discovering and analyzing personal processes and interrelationships. They have given me pieces to their puzzles. Even if you cannot find all the pieces, who can turn down a challenge like that? I must attempt to formulate them into a complex being. I must make them 3 Dimensional, for they deserve such treatment, do they not?