You Need Two Oars
So, I’ve been watching this show on Hulu for the past couple of days. It’s turning in to a fun guilty pleasure. Anyway, in the fifth episode there’s a great line:
It’s like you are in a boat. You’ve got this one oar over here and it’s just rowing and rowing and rowing, you know, furiously fueled by everyone else’s expectations. And that’s never gonna stop. But, it’s kind of got you going around in circles, cause if you want to move forward, then you also have to row with the oar that represents how you see yourself.
Sometimes I feel like I’m only equipped with an oar and a half. I don’t always have a very clear vision of who I am, or who I believe I could become if I worked at it. The internet can make it so easy to hide this truth – I can edit and photoshop the current moment, and, to some extent, delete the past.
It’s not the same as having two oars.
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You are right Bri, you can tweet things online now, but you still know the truth. I’m closer to working that second oar now then I have been in years. I think sometimes I just get lazy and decide to stop working for a while. Hence the fact that I have not done much with my photography like I want to. You just have to take time to focus on yourself. Hard thing to do with the computer on, I must admit though
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I didn’t really mean that being online was holding me back. It’s more that the internet allows everyday people like me to put on an extra mask where we can make ourselves look more ‘put together’ than we actually are. In some ways it’s not so bad – if we know how we want to represent ourselves we’re pretty close to having a full second oar to row with.
I find that I’m much less likely to have an idea of who I want to be, and am more inclined to delete the past in hopes of a fresh start. That method doesn’t move me forward. At all. But it can create the illusion that I know what I’m doing.
That makes a lot of sense. I just find that getting away from that online persona helps me think about who I really am and want to be. And fresh starts aren’t impossible, but they still include the past in some way, shape or form. But everyone is different.
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Oars? Boats? Now if we were talking thermonuclear powered jet skis with an Irish wolf hound strapped to the front, we might be talking…