Me? I’m nobody.
Or at least, I’m no one in particular. My interests are absolute basic. I like old cars, girls with abridge hips, Coca-Cola, cheeseburgers medium-rare. I am tempted to add something added agitative about myself, but there’s not much. “I aswell like deviled eggs,” I about just typed in a admission of attempted interestingness. But that’s not interesting. A lot of bodies like deviled eggs, or at diminutive a lot of bodies do. At diminutive 50% of bodies admire deviled eggs. So this does not achieve me interesting.
My admired bloom is the bloom blue. Sometimes, if I ambition to mix things up, I say that my admired bloom is “blue-gray,” but really, it’s just blue. This is additionally not actually fascinating. You are not traveling to stop blubbering at a activity by proclaiming that your admired bloom is blue. There is no record-scratching blubbering aloft this announcement. “Blue?” no one anytime says. “Really?” It’s the a lot of accustomed admired bloom to have. Any added bloom would be better: Mauve, maybe. Or orange, even.
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…Ancient bodies had no blubbering for the bloom blue. This seems absolute odd until you ahead about it, and again it makes sense. Absolute few things in attributes are blue: a few birds, a few flowers and that’s it. There are of course, two big exceptions to this rule. I’ll accordance you a brace of aberrant to ahead of them.
Right. Yes, of course. The two big exceptions are this: the sea and the sky. These are both acutely blue.
…So why, in that case, was there no blubbering for “blue” in age-old times? For a simple reason. The sea and the sky are both all about you, all the time. The sky is consistently there. So age-old bodies didn’t allegation to anxiety the bloom of the sky by a name. Instead, they just declared it “the sky.” The above activity for the sea. Bodies in age-old times didn’t biking about a lot. They didn’t crop vacations. So if you lived by the sea, again you always lived by the sea. So again, instead of allocation the color, they just declared it by its name. …Sea, sky.
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Here’s the thing: Everyone wants to be unique, of course. But we are not all of us traveling to be unique. And if we were, that’d be a adapted problem. If we were all adapted again that’d abject that… no one was unique, which would aswell be a problem. But about — we are not all of us, by definition, traveling to be unique.
Right now, I’m acid abject jeans and a gray t-shirt. If you anesthetized me on the street, would you even alarm me at all? It seems doubtful. We don’t alarm what is omnipresent. This is the appointment of the bloom blue. I would like to be more… noticeable, but accomplishing that adeptness blot changeabout my interests. But I can’t change my interests, because my interests are my interests. I can’t changeabout from abject to mauve, because I just like what I like.
But still, I would like to be noticeable. I don’t ambition to be invisible, allocation of the background, blue. …And I worry. What if, by the end of this essay, you acquire already alone my name?
image - “No. 61 (Rust and Blue),” by Mark Rothko
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