x - 0020 [Signs and Wonders]

[call_me_spooky]

We may choose to question, to doubt, the evidence of our senses; but we cannot easily deny them. We interact with the world through our bodies; and so when we find them changed, might not our perception of the world change? Or am I me in some fashion that defies the flesh entirely. I'm not touching the battle of the sexes nonsense with a ten-foot pole, because that kind of conversation never ends well for the males involved... But I'll admit it was interesting to look through different eyes. Seeing the same world from another angle. I don't know that I learned anything, except that I don't like being short, which I really could have guessed.

Still, food for thought. If it's in essence an accident that I am the man I see in the mirror every day, what does that say about the person I believe myself to be? If I'd been born in the body I found myself in the other day (admittedly not without its advantages,) would I be where I am, who I am? Or would my life have followed some other path, impossible to imagine or predict?

I don't think we're meant to learn anything from these curses-- certainly theories abound to explain them, though whether any do, who knows-- but that doesn't mean we can't.

Anyway. In other matters-- has anyone heard from Donna Noble recently? She's been uncharacteristically quiet for a couple of days...

Comments

[specialagentgf.livejournal.com]

Mulder?

[orderonto]

People are a process, not a product. 'You' are still you, no matter what you were five minutes ago or will be five minutes from now.

[kodomosensei.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, I have not seen Ms. Noble recently. I will ask her roommate.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

Guess I was lucky I wasn't much shorter as a woman. Though I'm not that very tall myself, either.

D'you think Donna's missing too? I... Don't even know where she lives, to be honest. I've known her from before I got to the City, but we hadn't talked then. I've talked to her here, though.

[sheisstilllost.livejournal.com]

You certainly have a lot on your mind there.

Bin woman? I haven't heard from her in a while, come to think of it. Maybe she got really busy working for that millionaire?

[steeldame.livejournal.com]

Certainly not. Genders and social expectations of the said genders still play a role in our societies. You would have been raised different according to your parents' set of ideals and you would have likely had other strengths and limitations.