I know where you are coming from on this, and I basically agree, although my current psychosis says different. When I'm feeling down, I feel the need to hide my eyes --- this is no big surprise, and easily explainable in terms of wanting to draw curtains on the window into my soul for a bit. It is for this kind of reason that I've been wearing sunglasses a lot, even though it's Winter. However, the other thing I will often do (when I can get away with it --- i.e. not at work) is wear eye make-up, which at first glance seems like having the opposite effect. However, the best way I can explain why this isn't contradictory is that by changing the window-dressing (this metaphor is getting a bit stretched now, isn't it?), that my made-up eyes are no longer the window into my soul, but someone elses, and in this way the visibility of my soul is removed. Did that make sense?
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Date: 2003-02-15 11:34 am (UTC)I know where you are coming from on this, and I basically agree, although my current psychosis says different. When I'm feeling down, I feel the need to hide my eyes --- this is no big surprise, and easily explainable in terms of wanting to draw curtains on the window into my soul for a bit. It is for this kind of reason that I've been wearing sunglasses a lot, even though it's Winter. However, the other thing I will often do (when I can get away with it --- i.e. not at work) is wear eye make-up, which at first glance seems like having the opposite effect. However, the best way I can explain why this isn't contradictory is that by changing the window-dressing (this metaphor is getting a bit stretched now, isn't it?), that my made-up eyes are no longer the window into my soul, but someone elses, and in this way the visibility of my soul is removed. Did that make sense?