Graelwyn wrote:
I confess, I sometimes wonder how others view me and who I come across as to others, as our own views seem to always differ so entirely.
On the Wrong Planet, are you naught but the sum of your posts?

A reflection of what you write in the mind of each reader? If who we are is but a reflection in the minds of those who perceive us, then it becomes an impossible question to answer. But, like you, I confess I wonder how others perceive me. Even when they tell me so, directly.
I confess, I believe that who we are is someone that nobody can ever truly know.
Here on the WP, the medium for how we try to express who we are is words on a screen. In real life, the medium for how we try to express who we are is the limited facilities offered by these organic vessels in which our souls dwell for a brief time. Imagination is infinite; how can we express the infinite with the feeble tools we have, without serious information loss? How can we even truly express the love we feel in our hearts? We all try, some are better, slightly more successful, than others... But, nobody ever really succeeds. And the more complex we are, the more of a burden this can be. I believe that aspies have it particularly bad in this area; 'tis a burden we all must bare.
I confess, when I die, nobody will have ever really have known the true me. Not because I did not wish anyone to, did not try to share myself, did not love. But because who I "am" in this life, this organic vessel, these words that I write... It is all simply the slightest crack on this common plane we all dwell on, a crack that leads to the infinite expanse of my mind and soul; a whole other universe; an infinite number of other universes. And, try as I might, nobody ever gets more than a glimpse of what lays beyond. It's like trying to see the entirety the world by looking out of the keyhole on the front door of your house; it is like a blurry snapshot of nothing. It is an inherently painful and lonely state when thought of like this, which is, perhaps, why most bother not to do so, want not to do so. I think that there is something to the old saying, "Ignorance is bliss..."
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Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." - Morpheus, The Matrix
Good fortune,
- Icarus the Keyhole
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Please forgive me if, in the heat of battle, I sometimes forget which side I'm on.