Starting out in the Evening

It happens to many people, I'm sure, that who they are -- their true selves -- doesn't come out until the day has been turned off. Jobs and obligations take up the daylight, and after all of that the mind wants to switch to something truer. We read, write, watch, recreate, perform, as a way of re-defining in 2 hours the people we've been branded as in the previous 8. Now we have blogs and online profiles and avatars and emoticons that pretend to be us while our other selves are serving their masters. For some, however, this is insufficient for the expression of their identity, so the mind becomes a cage of ideas and opinions, firing wildly and burning hot at night, when it most needs to rest. Here I am. Blog free me.