Private life and public opinion are inverted in these pictures, and the results are honest — sometimes painfully so — and often very funny, as with the photograph of an elderly man with a sign that says, simply, "ME".
Whether we call this self-consciousness "the ego", our "personal thinking", "the self", or simply "me", trying to live up to an image or ideal of what this "me" should be like is the single most draining, stressful, and ultimately futile things we spend our time and energy on each and every day.
I am simply me, one person, a human being".
Richard, above, submitted a piece of paper that read, simply, "Me".
He called his autobiography "Where's the Rest of Me?" She called hers simply "Me".
If my book-buying experience becomes simply me sitting alone on the couch click, click, clicking, I don't know what I'll become (I'll probably forget I'm looking for books and jump over to Netflix).
It read, simply, "Me!" Attached to the message was a photo of a middle-aged black woman posing at the edge of an indoor pool while wearing a bright, royal-blue, one-piece swimsuit and some red flip-flops.
"That androgynous, no-nonsense woman that I had been for 30 years turned out to be not quite me," Ms. Postrel quotes her as saying, "or perhaps not simply me".
