The other day in Social Work lecture, we had to draw an object that represented ourselves.I forget why we did it for (already!), but anyway I drew a pair of balances that was weighed down on one side by an invisible weight. It was a relatively painless process and the drawing was finished in a few seconds, which intrigued me immensely because I think I unleashed my subconscious self somehow. Normally, given my very pragmatic communication pattern, I would have put a lot more thought into deciding on any form of representation for myself, and apparently so did most of the people in that lecture.
Interestingly enough, an inordinate number of people drew something directly/indirectly related to heat and the SUN. Examples include, a sun with an angry face, a sun with a smiling star within, melting ice cream, the sun and the moon...the list goes on. Reasons they gave were generally,
"I appear happy and bubbly but I have a DARK SIDE."
Suddenly I felt this chill in the middle of lecture, like
"Oh no I'm surrounded by a whole bunch of repressed people who feel the need to be nice all the time?!"
Then I thought for a while, and realised that hey, that gives me the perfect opportunity to be evil, and then I was happy.
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