now that 2022 is ending, I've been having thoughts about online identities and how it helps with lack of self-expression in Reality
we never had any control over ourselves, our bodies change against our will, growing and evolving into a person we don't feel like it's accurate to how you think you should be, yet, you are forced to become the stranger you see in the mirror anyway
sure, you can attempt to, but our own bodies is resistant against change... with the added pressure from Reality to fall into the hole they've carved for you, you can't help but shrink more and more into your little hole, succumbing to the expectations from the people around you
but with the Internet, you can control everything about yourself. every face of You can be tweaked to fit how you want to be seen. your speech can be edited to express your ideas more eloquently. you can reinvent yourself to a version of You that is more accurate to You
it is may be why im so online, I've always wondered, why am I online, if it hurts me so much? ive been feeling so alienated in my own Space, yet here I am, reading Posts that some may irritate me even more.
i guess this artificial momentary freedom is what kept me staying. i understand that this online world may be destroyed one day, and ill be yanked back to reality once more but until then, i'll indulge in the reinvention of myself until the death of anonymity comes