About Muse
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In which someone was mistaken about you:
I put myself into a sport that made me uncomfortable. Wrestling. When girls wrestle, it puts an image into people’s minds: fierce, vicious, strong. But the way I dress, overalls, sweaters, clips in my hair, puppy eyeliner, and my beat-up red Converse, that is another story. My two worlds were separate; Luneth the wrestler - Physically weak? Yes, but determined? Definitely. - and Luneth the nerd - involved in many activities and an all-As student. The friends I made were completely separate as well, and so two Luneths were born. Talkative, nerdy, friendly Luneth and silent, small, but determined Luneth. And what I realized after those seasons ended and summer began, as my friends converged and we chatted about our experiences, those two Luneths were so distinct that EVERYONE was wrong about me. I know myself to be loud but tired, smart but burnt out, passionate but exhausted, kind but self-protective, perpetually confused but willing to try. But the ideas that others had were so simple. To my wrestling friends, I never talked, was always staring into space, and the words I did say were thoughtful, but also, that I was a calming presence. My school friends knew me as a tired, overachiever, perhaps a little sad but outgoing and friendly. These narratives were so different from what I knew of myself, and upon hearing them, I was confused. Why do I know myself one way, but everyone knows the opposite? What is true? Who am I? Who gets to say who I am? I’m still puzzling this out. Maybe one day, I will understand…