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November 2009 
What is your favorite role to play?
Posted on Oct 31st, 2009
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tara
tara
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 31, 2009:
It's Halloween, which means dressing up for many.
What persona do you most frequently adopt?
What's your favorite mask or role?
When it comes to dressing up, I have more than a little difficulty picking a favorite role. I love them all, from gorilla to marie antoinette, indiana jones, marilyn, ninja warrior.
I still have my fave mask brought home from Venice that I designed the most amazing costume for and how I loved strutting about like a fine venetian aristocrat, that is until I fell asleep drunk on a table.
The pippi longstockings costume I wore when I was nine, is probably the one I adored the most. I identified so strongly with her chutzpah, independence, playfulness, big teeth and unique dresscode. Oh to be able to lift horses, jump on roofs in a flash and live like a pirate.
According to Jung we have but one persona to adopt, that is if we manage to distinguish ourselves from the ego instead of ending up being adopted by the facade we carry around. There are ofcuz many roles available for the persona to play, chosen consciously or acted out in oblivion. For obvious reasons I can't go into the latter and I'm sure anyone who knows me well could list a few. Of the conscious ones, I like the one wearing the mr fix it cap. Gotta problem? let me solve it for you. You don't even need to ask, I'm perfectly capeable of taking the initiative on that one. What you say? You don't need me to fix your problems? ..too late, I'm in the zone and there's no stopping me.
Blessed be that role, oozing competence, basking about in the glorious illusion of being in control.. of other people's lives. Hiding under the mr fix it cap comes especially handy when my own life is running amok. In addition I get to be the caring and supporting friend, the one that can be trusted to lean on when the shit hits the fan. And please, do suck every drop of energy out of me, drain me totally and give me the perfect excuse to not deal with my own stuff. The paradox being more often than not, that I play that very role when I feel like a lil scared one who could do with someone to lean on for support. The moments, and sometimes extended moments, where I can't seem to tap into that magical feeling of being courageous and absolutely invinceable behind the freckles, self supporting braids and mismatching socks.. Pippi, can you heeaar me?
Blessed be that role, oozing competence, basking about in the glorious illusion of being in control.. of other people's lives. Hiding under the mr fix it cap comes especially handy when my own life is running amok. In addition I get to be the caring and supporting friend, the one that can be trusted to lean on when the shit hits the fan. And please, do suck every drop of energy out of me, drain me totally and give me the perfect excuse to not deal with my own stuff. The paradox being more often than not, that I play that very role when I feel like a lil scared one who could do with someone to lean on for support. The moments, and sometimes extended moments, where I can't seem to tap into that magical feeling of being courageous and absolutely invinceable behind the freckles, self supporting braids and mismatching socks.. Pippi, can you heeaar me?
There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
Collette
Halloween! - Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash - (HD Stereo)
Access: Public
“In addition I get to be the caring and supporting friend, the one that can be trusted to lean on when the shit hits the fan”
a quiet yes with a thank you from the same place that will move my butt from this time zone to yours or maybe somewhere in between
Hey Pippi this song requires us both to get up and twist….the moster mash,it's a graveyard smash waa oooo
Pippi says, “I hear you Tara…I hear you…I'm still here! Right here! As long as you don't forget me, I won't forget you. We can still play together as long as you remember me….”
Kathy says, “Well now I've tranced Pippi Longstocking. Anything's possible.”
I'm meeting Kathy & Bridget somewhere in between,
swopping time & space for a dash of magic,
trancing pippi & doin a lil twist..
if I could rhyme, I'd write a song. Alas, I'm humming anyway <3
You are wise and interesting. What a wonderful friend you are, doing those interventions :>)(whoohoo). You know what you are doing. I think you are quite wonderful and inventive and understand yourself and others. I like your sense of humour too. There's a lot of Pippi still in you ;>)
Pipi suits you to a T, striped socks and all!
oh tara!!! pippi was one of my favorites!! and the monster mash – my brother and sister and I used to have this great album called “goofy gold” and this was on it. we marched and danced around the coffee table in the living room to it, over and over. I can still see my little brother in his blue pajamas with his special blanker monstering it up. oh thank you for this memory!!! I'm going to send my brother and sister a link to that video.
poor adam just had to put up with me trying to monster dance him around our living room with ozzy dog barking his head off at us because he wants to dance too and now that monster mash song is over he's blasting the rocky horror picture show soundtrack into the living room. :-)
oh mimi, thank you for your compliments, you just made my day : ) Like you, I've had an interesting life so far, with disappointments & sorrows, for which I am grateful. The tough times has been the most rewarding, tought me a lot about myself that I likely wouldn't have picked up on hadn't I been down biting the grass in between the smashing times of fun & joy. Your outlook on life & the way grace & integrity oozes from you, is a constant inspiration for me.
I love how you all know Pippi well, she was my fave thing to watch on tv & read when I was a child. And you know what, Sandi? I just bought myself a great pair of striped knee highs to remind me of the Pippi in me. :-D
Dawn, you are too funny, I can imagine what a blast you had dancing around with your Adam reminiscing your childhood. The monster mash is the coolest halloween song in my book & don't get me started on the rocky horror picture show. I used to go watch the movie all dressed up to do the time warp in style ;-)
I completely forgot that Pippi Langstrumpf was my hero once! :p