identity

i recently watched wim wenders' documentary on the fashion great yohji yamamoto, 

"a notebook on cities and clothes". this film was released in 1989 but the words in the opening credits of the film struck me as particularly relevant in the face of instagram.

you live wherever you live,

you do whatever work you do,

you talk however you talk,

you eat whatever you eat,

you wear whatever clothes you wear,

you look at whatever images you see...

you're living however you can.

you are whoever you are.

"identity"...

of a person,

of a thing,

of a place.

"identity". 

the word itself gives me shivers.

it rings of calm, comfort, contentedness.

what is it, identity?

to know where you belong?

to know your self worth?

to know who you are?

how do you recognize identity?

we are creating an image of ourselves,

we are attempting to resemble this image...

we live in the cities.

the cities live in us...

time passes.

we move from one city to another,

from one country to another.

we change languages,

we change habits,

we change opinions, 

we change clothes,

we change everything.

everything changes, and fast.

images above all. 

- wim wenders

it is an important question, a global question. 

what do we use our identity for? the answer affects us all. our identity is pure potential and we have the ability to shape it to create good.