We create illusions of ourselves to appear more important and special to others, but leave the inside neglected and in some cases, rotting.
During this eight game stretch, sans a dubious result against Columbus, there has been a supreme confidence displayed, and technical skill (Obafempsey) that has resulted in a lack of fear in getting a win despite whatever odds we happen to create for ourselves (4 of the 7 wins were coming from behind).
Each of us has created for ourselves a degree of risk we are willing to tolerate.
What we need most are leaders who can deliver the hope we were promised four years ago, giving us a chance to generate the kind of prosperity we created for ourselves 30 years ago, the last time the American people realized that hyperactive government is the problem and not the solution.
But when change rocks our lives and upsets all the neat little rules we've created for ourselves, that sense of safety contracts.
Rainey uses people's Facebook profiles along with royal portraits to create sculptures, similar to the classic sculptural form of the bust, but distorted through software to create a representation of ourselves that's caught between the digital and the physical.
Based on this new awareness, we can then make a concerted effort to not create carbon copies of ourselves, but instead allow our children to freely develop their own interests, goals, and priorities in life.
"That means we're bringing these bits together more and more instead of having to create them ourselves.
We create different versions of ourselves for different audiences, whether it's on Instagram or in interviews or when we are talking to our mothers.
Mindfulness is seen as an enquiry for objectivity, a way to claw back some of the equilibrium of how we exist in the real world, rather than the hyper-mediated place we create for parts of ourselves online.
