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<\/a>[\/wide]\nPhotograph by <\/a>[\/wide]\nPhotograph by J0ch3N89<\/a> <\/p>\nSometimes I forget that while I’m a permahappy tropical island-bred Brady Buncher with high-brow tastes and low-brow needs, I’m also a Gotham-infused badass with a geekcore and a penchant for literary expressionism. <\/p>\n
I try to kill that complex character in favor of a simpler life experience — you know, for one that people look happy being and doing. So craft a more marketable and commercially-acceptable personal brand I do (as to not stick out), but when I am left with nothing else but my heart, mind and soul to fend for itself, I see glimpses of the person I try to snub out… <\/p>\n
That undefinable, un-categorizable, other-culture subject, dressed-in-conventional-clothing humanoid forcing herself to be normal, when what I really am, is anything but. When I\u2019m reminded of this, everything that happened or is happening begins to make complete sense. <\/p>\n
Someone once said I\u2019m too fluid to hold, but rivers flow just fine along its banks. <\/p>\n
Then maybe one day, I\u2019ll see that I\u2019m a river that has carved a bank to guide my stream.<\/p>\n
What about you? Are you flowing in or flowing out?<\/p>\n
![J0ch3N89<\/a> <\/p>\nSometimes I forget that while I’m a permahappy tropical island-bred Brady Buncher with high-brow tastes and low-brow needs, I’m also a Gotham-infused badass with a geekcore and a penchant for literary expressionism. <\/p>\nI try to kill that complex character in favor of a simpler life experience — you know, for one that people look happy being and doing. So craft a more marketable and commercially-acceptable personal brand I do (as to not stick out), but when I am left with nothing else but my heart, mind and soul to fend for itself, I see glimpses of the person I try to snub out… <\/p>\nThat undefinable, un-categorizable, other-culture subject, dressed-in-conventional-clothing humanoid forcing herself to be normal, when what I really am, is anything but. When I\u2019m reminded of this, everything that happened or is happening begins to make complete sense. <\/p>\nSomeone once said I\u2019m too fluid to hold, but rivers flow just fine along its banks. <\/p>\nMaybe I\u2019ve been looking for containers to flow into, when what I ought to be doing is just flow… outward.<\/H4><\/p>\nThen maybe one day, I\u2019ll see that I\u2019m a river that has carved a bank to guide my stream.<\/p>\nWhat about you? Are you flowing in or flowing out?<\/p>\nP\/S: This piece is inspired by this track<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[wide][\/wide] Photograph by J0ch3N89 Sometimes I forget that while I’m a permahappy tropical island-bred Brady Buncher with high-brow tastes and low-brow needs, I’m also a Gotham-infused badass with a geekcore and a penchant for literary expressionism. I try to kill that complex character in favor of a simpler life experience — you know, for one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Horseshoe_Bend_HDR.jpg\"){kind=link}