The catwalk of life

If you’re wearing cool looking sneakers and noone sees them, are they really cool?

The city provides an immediate springboard for testing and sculpting your identity. New haircut, shoes, shirt, smile? Walk outside and see what the first 10 people think.

In the suburbs or out in the country this process would take much longer. You’ll have to find your way to a mall or wait until you go to a gathering like church or work space.

The catwalk of life applies to our ideas and believes as well. Until we share them with others, they’re like the tree that falls in the forest without anyone hearing it. Do they really exist only in our heads? Is our style, personality, thoughts appealing if only to us?

This aspect of city living would be hard to give up. My sidewalk / subway feedback panel. Not to mention my position on the same panel as a fellow city dweller.

This is obviously how we function generally in life. The city just provides a magnified version of this human behavior, readily available to all that endures her demands.

How and where do you see yourself applying this practice of identity feedback and sculpting?