Came across an interesting question, why emoticons???

Socializing can now be established in virtual media, as technology rapidly advances, virtual communications depict actual communication too, thus perhaps the use of emoticons is introduced to mimic mood as a manifest function, so that the recipient can understand the tone of the message, decreasing chances of misinterpreting them. As such, there might be a latent function that since virtual communicating is less formal, it can be used as a platform to counsel or simply to seek a chatting companion that feedback emotions to make your day. Also, there could be a dysfunction that people lost the real skill of socializing in real life eventually...

So since that living is so drama nowadays, what is really the 'self'? Am image created through results of socializing? Then how does all these personality and stuffs like that come from at the first place? How is it that fortune telling can accurately read the self? If so, doesnt that mean that the 'self' is not a result of nurture but nature? Of innate instead of variable depends on the social circle??

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson

This is true because since everyone has the ability and choice to be deviance, but it's the interactions and relationships with people that prevents many from doing so, by telling them to be themselves, they might deviate, since none of us is pure good, and if we accepts them to be themselves, there might be chaos, who really truly knows themselves anyway...

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine

This is true, because if we cant change anything, might as well play along and just go with it, with style and enjoyment, because in the end of the day, we could at leat leave behind a beautiful legacy, trail or tale...

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Seuss

However under some circumstances, especially when we are fighting for a stand that benefits society, we should speak up, we should dare to challenge authorities and laws, which often diverts attention away from their own flaws...

Thus, there's the prayer, for SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, for COURAGE to change the things I can, for WISDOM to know the difference...