That's fine for her, and maybe a wise self-care decision.
Kos-Read chose the name because it was easy to remember and because he liked that Cao Cao was a wise, self-reliant man.
You capture perfectly a particular combination of cockiness and cluelessness that marks the onset of adolescence, while managing to keep the judgment of an older, wiser self at bay.
It might be an image of your older wiser self, or an image of someone who has died who loved you, or an image of a religious figure.
And I did just kind of cringe a little bit because we're trying to get people to understand that when the conditions are great and we have a super water year like we're shaping up to have right now, it doesn't mean you turn off your wiser self that tells you to hold back a little bit on watering your lawn every day.
It is the story of how he and some friends threw themselves into the sleepless, heady world of startup magazines in San Francisco in the early 1990's, believing in all seriousness that they could reinvent the medium, and of how Mr. Eggers almost got a spot on MTV's "The Real World," something his older, wiser self now finds deeply embarrassing.
Nelly burbles about "not wanting to hide behind metaphor" and uncovering her "wiser self".
I have gathered them near the stereo speakers and begun playing music to them to keep their beautiful wood open and vibrating with musical sound, so that in sixteen weeks they will be ready for my wiser self.
As the social conscience of the drama, Jenny (whose older and wiser self – voiced by Vanessa Redgrave – bookends these tales with some soothing personal philosophy) is always more likely to give us something to think about than laugh at, and as usual she got the week's most brow-furrowing case.
But John takes one look at the goldfish swallowing, partying frat brothers of Kappa Psi Lambda, and the voice-over narration of his older, wiser self says, "I knew I had to do whatever it took to be part of this".
The quiet, subtle voice is your instinctive, wiser self; the louder voice is usually your ego.
