It's funny how you view yourself, how others view you, and how you think others view you can be so radically different. Joe was at the house. He looked at a Zelda manga on the table and said "What's that?" Cue 3 seconds of charged judgmental disbelieving silence. J, in his usual condescending way, says it's a manga. Joe defense is: "Guys, I'm Asian, but I'm not really Asian. " The things is, that's not why he got the dirty LOOK. It's because any of us could identify that backwards cover because manga has been a normal part of life since The Pokemon Epidemic of '97.
A new coworker of mine told me she sees me as this sweet innocent person that never does anything wrong. She imagines me going home at night, reading a book, falling peacefully to sleep, and then waking up in the morning to my parents bringing me orange juice and scrambled eggs. I'm pretty sure she was only half joking. I asked one of my best friends about her initial impression of me. She said I was nice but didn't seem innocent. I was quiet, but not in an awkward way...It was like I KNEW things.This comes as a complete surprise to me. I'm the definition of AWKWARD, I feel like everyone can feel my discomfort. I have no idea how I ever played it off. This is my life:
Which one is truer? The way you see yourself, or the way others see you?
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