I like people watching.
People are amazing, they are are study all of their own.
In our early married days we would amuse ourselves greatly by inventing stories for people who passed by as we enjoyed lunch or coffee. Our little flat was on the ground floor and there were quite a number of regulars who trundled past our window. We made up names for many of them and imagined the lives that they occupied.
One gentleman in particular we christened Carlos; he was a solitary figure who was always in his own company. He lived alone at the corner of our building and walked in a slow measured fashion, always straight backed and tall. He had a tiny pony tail like a South American drug lord, hence the name.
As the years passed we got to know him and it turned out his name was actually Charlie.
He had transformed the jungle at the rear of his house into an urban delight, he was an extremely interesting character and although he lived alone he knew everyone. As we began to see him everywhere he was always with someone, chatting or going places with them. Turns out that the only time Carlos was alone was on his commute to and from home.
There is a great danger in snapshots of lives.
Social media has made it supremely easy to manufacture a completely different persona to project the side of ourselves that we want to be portrayed. I have successfully achieved this and it is ridiculously simple.
The first time that I experienced first hand misrepresentation at the hands of the media was a huge eye opener that I took a good while to recover from.
I had been participating in a community project that involved tidying up a graveyard in a deprived city area. A national broadsheet newspaper were doing a piece on the charity and thought that this was a golden opportunity. The photographer took some low level shots of me with a litter claw and a headstone in a full length action shot. We then spent an hour with a very charming female reporter who scribbled away on her notepad as we answered her questions.
The article was accompanied by a half page shot of me being socially concious among the departed. The distance between our answers and her version of them was quite considerable. I wouldn’t say that it was litigation material, but she had rearranged much of our words into sentences that suited her political slant and desired emphasis.
This is a classic media trick, I am sure that there is a loophole being manipulated to their advantage. We form our opinions of celebrities and public figures based on the snippets that are fed to us by those seeking to control whatever aspect suits their purposes.
What concerns me is that we are all stage managing the information flow. This is no longer just the domain of the publicist or the promotional team; we are all to some degree constructively editing the details that we make public as if to perpetuate some greater truth.
The greater truth is in fact that we are all facing the same challenges dressed up with a different nuance.
Would that we could drop the curtain of perfection and just be honest with ourselves and each other.
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