"And my problem was that I always tried to go in
everyone’s way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another
while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of
trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible
man", (Ellison, 573).
Feeling invisible or being invisible is hardly a foreign concept upon the
minds of today's logically inclined audience. But this debate begs the obvious:
which is real? And better yet, how do we approach this mental state in
incessant deterioration of our self-worth and our assumed value as transfixed
by the outside world? In many instances it is our weakened drive to be known,
to be credited, to be cared about. When natural forces of purely mean and
ignorant habit act on our psyche, it is likely that a resignation to the whimsy
of invisibility in response to that source of disinterest can occur. But does
the transparent lens we imagine others look upon us with reflective of what
they might actually see? We likely project what we want the world to view us as
but it's a rare find that these perceptions may coincide with what the world
might really take you to be. Such skewed mental complexities are capable of
taking affect in our reality, but then could one belief in the outside
perception of a person as unworthy of a glance drive one to believe that they
are quite literally transparent?
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