You are your actions. Your actions are you. Your self-image doesn’t matter as much. When you realise what you need to do, it doesn’t mean that’s who you need to be. You can just pretend.*
Derek Sivers
I learned so much about art from watching a kid draw … kids don’t call it art when they’re throwing things around, drawing – they’re just doing stuff.**
John Baldessari
Rehearsing our self-stories into action–
Pretending is how we begin–
It’s how we learn–
It’s practising doing stuff–
Without permission–
Life is all pretend and practise–
The list of what we can do becomes endless–
*Derek Sivers’ Useful Not True;
**Quoted in Austin Kleon’s Don’t Call It Art.
THIN|SILENCE 