same old clothes

It is generally understood that language creates order out of chaos. We talk ourselves into existence each day. We awaken and immediately begin our self-dialogue, creating and re-creating the story of who we are. We put on the same old verbal clothes we wore yesterday, a yesterday that does not exist except through our self-chatter. We look to our lists, whether imagined or written, of determination, determining who we are, where we are, and if philosophical of bent, why we are. We look to others to agree, even to insist, that this is who we are. Only when we put ourselves on "vacation" do we vacate this word shield which forms us, with which we form ourselves. But rather than truly vacate immediately, it takes us at least three days on vacate-ion to empty of the old self-defining habits and open to new. Only those who know how to "stop the roof-top chatter" can truly exist in the world with wide open awareness, can "take off all their clothes and trample them beneath their feet."