For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.
I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.
As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
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