Do you know the Elephant and Piggie books? If you don't, you should!
The two characters - you guessed it: an elephant and a pig - are quite opposite of each other. The pig is carefree, funny and impulsive, the elephant is everything but.
And in my favorite (so far) book, the pig decides to be a frog. The elephant is shocked. The pig explains it's just pretend. The elephant doesn't even know what that is. And the dialogue goes something like this (not exact quotes, as I don't have the book near me):
Piggie: "Pretend is acting like something you are not"
Elephant: "And you can just do that?!"
P: "Yes, everyone does"
E: "Even adults??"
P: "All the time!"
I can not agree more.
I come in layers. You remember Shrek? Yeah, I know I only have references from kids books and cartoons, but I am not worried. So give me a break.
Coming back to Shrek, I am an onion. I keep thinking there are so many layers of pretending that I don't even know if there's anything left under them. I feel like I am pretending to be an adult, pretending to be confident, pretending to know what I am doing, pretending to be calm, pretending to manage everything and anything that comes my way...
So today I might be a frog. Or an onion. I just wonder what's under it, if anything at all.
Note: if anyone wonders, in the end Elephant decides to be a cow and Piggie is extremely proud of him.
