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Interesting post... Most people will have a 'front' that they feel safe behind when meeting new people in particular. It's a natural safe psychological defence against the unfamiliar... it doesn't mean that this front is there to mis-lead or mis-guide someone else into believing what you're not, what you are and what you are like, personality, character, honesty etc. will come through, so in my opinion, I tend to think of a front as more of a filter to who I want to know better :-)
 

The world would be a much better place without those kinda curtains... I still in favour of curtains on bedrooms though... and houses in general.
 

Not have a status is an illusion. You have one, even in this little world of Sarah Lawrence, even when you are a tourist in New York. New people looking at you have their own curtains in there eyes and they see you through it. They cannot see what you think you are, or even what you are thinking. But they can like or not the shape of your silhouette, like on the picture, and have or not the wish to see you longer in different lights and postures. Outside of the story of the curtains, did somebody hurt you in what you feel very intimate and precious ? Tell me, I will beat him.
Lots of love to whom is desperately adorable.
 

I'm not sure Andrew... like Jack says, it's a kind of filter and sometimes it does provide a kind of rest yah know. It'd be an interesting experience to see what would happen without them tho. I don't think they're detrimental, I see it kind of like fur on animals, they need it against the cold. And well sometimes we need it against other people, even when they mean well.

And don't worry mum, no one's done anything wrong to me, if anything I've found a really good friend and you won't have to beat him ;)
 

Well... I think those kinda of protections allow you to hide your weak points. Its only through careful removing of those protections that I think you streagthen your weak points and grow to be a stronger person. I am not saying tear down the curtains, but more that in an ideal world people would not need curtains and that moving towards my goal as a stonger person living in a better world means removing those curtains.
 

Remember the guy who says "70% is how you look, 20% how you sound, 10% what you say" ? I'm sure you do! To him and according to my own understanding of what curtains are, 90% is curtains (you can recalculate on an excel sheet). Whatever you do.

Most people of our age have at least an idea of what their curtains are but, like you, like me, they are trying to figure out what the other 10% are made of. But I don't want to get into that, i'd just like to add that curtains have nothing wrong, they just are, whatever you do; you can arrange them, influence their shapes and colors, consciously or not. Few people, I think, use fake curtains to hide or draw attention exagerately.

You can know your curtains (using the word "front" should be more appropriate btw) by taking some time to think, or looking in the eyes of your bestfriend or your girlfriend, i don't think it is something hard to achieve.

Last thing boys and girls, do not forget to wash your curtains from time to time !
 

I've been sitting outside your place for weeks now and have so far only managed to see you naked twice.