Choosing Your Avatar

I sometimes like to google expressions and then look at associated images given that I happen to be a big believer in the power of symbols. The other day I googled the expression shadow boxing and an image showed two Asian old men on opposite sides of a corner performing some dance and their shadows appeared to be fighting each other. This happens to be enlightenment; if you participate in life's dance, but you understand that that you just contribute to a shadow dance.

Choose your avatar, you are just operating in a make belief world anyway, so you might as well select the form, shape and size of your shadow. I have been molding my avatar for a while now and I now like what I see: I am behaving more manly, I am also much fitter with the help of work-outs and some added mental body-building; I  act more confidently and assertive, while perhaps being even more caring, loving and receptive than before. 

The avatar is your choice, so pick and choose whatever you like. The trick is, though, you don't want to fall in love with your avatar either, otherwise you will forget in crucial times that you are standing behind the curtain and not in front of it.