Extend

Extend your self. Have you ever wanted to go out in public as someone other than you? I'm not talking about morphing or slipping on someone else's skin by means of a potoin a la JK Rowling. But, just putting on a different personality. Almost as if you were playing your twin. If friends stop to say hi, then you just act confused, put on a French accent and tell them you are on your way to the zoo to have tea with a hippo. And really, that personality is just an extension of yourself. It's one role that you play in your life, magnified. You shape it, stick with only a certain phrase ('Fabulous!'), wear pastels and never use public transportation on a Tuesday. It's the U of you. Just a part that wasn't quit noticed before. Some women do this on dates, or when they go out to concerts or fests. I get to do it about once a month, and it still frightens me. Being someone else isn't so bad. But the reactions that I get from others does. We forget sometimes that it's not us. That that isn't really my friend that I am talking to. It's just an extension of thems. A dream. Working out some kind of fantasy that they normally wouldn't be able too. After all, don't we all wish at some point or another that we were born elves?