Well, I'm fascinated, anyway. Who do we become, when freed of our outer shell, and the presumptions that go with it?
(I actually felt a bit like this after I graduated from high school and attended a college where no one knew me; I bought a tie-dye shirt, which I had wanted for ages, and hadn't felt free to wear in high school, as it didn't match the quiet, straight-laced persona they knew there.)
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Date: 2006-07-08 11:58 am (UTC)(I actually felt a bit like this after I graduated from high school and attended a college where no one knew me; I bought a tie-dye shirt, which I had wanted for ages, and hadn't felt free to wear in high school, as it didn't match the quiet, straight-laced persona they knew there.)