Outside The Impossible

Saskia Schulte – Having Fun and Being WrongAired Monday, 18 March 2019, 3:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM PSTAs we grow up, we are told how wrong we are. How everything isn’t quite right. Judgment floats around our little minds. Our skin is too dark. We are too fat. Our clothes are out of style. They must not have money for lunch. All of this, and more is projected onto us as we play with our friends on the dusty playground or work on math inside stuffy classrooms. As we grow up, the judgements just get harsher and harsher as the kids learn to express their emotions. “Slim up!” “Grow up!” “Wear a potato sack next time instead of that hideous thing!” “Oh you’re beautiful!” “Ugh you’re hideous.” “I would ask you… but I don’t think you could afford it.” By the time we graduate high school, it seems like we have been split up into 100,000 different pieces, all with their own separate identities, judgements and wrongnesses. How many of those points of views and judgements have we all picked up on that are not even ours?On Mo