The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life -Erving Goffman
The William Shakespeare quote that starts out the chapter really resonated with me and how I feel about myself in life out in the world. I also strongly identified with the first paragraph about how others try to acquire knowledge when someone knew enters their presence. This is why I need to know if I’m going to say a ‘kick-back’ with friends; I need to know who’s going to be there and if there will be any new people that I don’t know are coming. If yes; then I can mentally prepare myself and also try to figure out their intentions, that is: are they funny?, are they trust-worthy? I identify myself as an em-path, so I am always turned into anything I may sense that all the others don’t.
I wonder if others are as choreographed as Preedy with their presence and how others take that in. I know I am extremely, in certain situations especially. In my online presence, my life seems flawless and aesthetic partially because I love photography, but also I love choreographing the way others perceive me. Which helps to my advantage when I meet certain people in person (especially people from small towns like where I live in Lodi) and they say “your even prettier than online” or “your life is always so fabulous” I know it’s conceited of me; but I like making that air around my sense of self. Or; at school for example, wearing certain clothes and how I sit giving the impression to seem uninterested or unapproachable. Why I mentioned in my other blog (JBC Chapter 10) that I like how sociology states that just as us having many forms of self.
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