ARE YOU LIKE YOUR AVATAR

I'm forever being asked for advice on pets and wildlife. My avatar is my baby Gilbert who, 2 years ago next month, vanished overnight. Its been very quiet and lonely here since I lost my best mate.

Oh and Akasha is my daughter's middle name.

Yes. In many ways.

I'm sure most who know me will agree...

You had to ask?

And yes,pretty much.

Yes, you should try to get some fresh air mate....😜

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My avatar is my baby Gilbert who, 2 years ago next month, vanished overnight. Its been very quiet and lonely here since I lost my best mate.

That was always my worst fear with my cats i really feel for you

I like to think i'm like a pirate sheep with boots but not sure i am

Of course mine is, although a Year younger. 😊 taken up some mountain pass with a glass bottom, zhangjiajie Hunan province PRC.

Mine is me and my border collie who passed away in 2011 (same year that pic was taken) He was a great dog

Lol, wife 4 has disappeared since the picture got rounded.

add a beard and a bit of hair still left on my head and you've got it!

Sir Real was responsible for mine,i think that he run out of Bill Oddie pictures.

Quote from Boris the Bold

And there was me thinking you were one of the dream boys !

I may be better in a dream

Solar-powered green and red floating catastrophe? Sounds about right.

One does feel that an avatar is a sort of reflection of the person concerned, in one aspect or another.

But what of those who have no avatar, the ghostly ones?

I have never felt the need to have an avatar, here or anywhere else. Any more than I have ever personally felt the need to wear a ring, or have a tattoo.

I like avatars, it reminds me who im talking to without squinting( as I do) for a name and identity...everyone we engage with publicly or socially has a face to whom we interact...not a ghostly grey nondescript silhouette.... more importantly,it reminds me who i am myself on a daily basis.

My life has been one long roller coaster of ghastly situations,ghastlier experiences and residual complications so that looking in the mirror for inspiration is just not enough.

Apart from searing pain in my back daily that reminds me i fell off a cliff face once, everything else is like a surreal series of the twilight zone.I pad around in the shadows and darkness of my mind hence my avatar.I use it in numerous places.

Am i nuts? maybe; disturbed? most probably, who gives a fuck. With my avatar I have a reflection i recognise, unlike that i see in a mirror.

makes sense Chriski , I'm pissed off I can't find my old erdogan goat shagger anywhere ,

Tried searching on the internet?

have looked on Interweb , it's seems to have gone , bastard goat shagger Erdogan , it'll turn up somewherel

I wrote this book. John Broken Willow is my author name. The photo from the book cover is the healing garden from the Northern Green Gathering, I don't remember which year.

Book blurb: "

A book for people who have some interest in hippy dippy things, but don’t necessarily take them entirely seriously. A comedy, scientific study of practices, whose practitioners reject science. Ever wondered how to fake an aura photo? Communicate with aliens using only copper piping? Cure cancer by bashing a gong? Turn water into medicine? Gain extra strands of DNA by email? Want to know the real powers of the mind, body and soul? This book has all this and much more! This book is not suitable for children."

Sold 27 copies in 8 years..... But I am still proud of my book.

My avatar has disappeared, it was neil of the young ones fame at the time I felt like neil , harping back to my school and college days and in some ways was back then very similar to neil the butt of everyones jokes as a teen and no better at college I played up to that charecture, getting a good kicking for no reason, well maybe there was sometimes I did like to wind lads up a bit like winding a group of tigers up then wondering why they try to kill you, however iam nothing like neil nowadays iam a fair bit bald, with a beard, the customary beard, I grew it stubble for a bit then before beards where everywhere, in fact most people on here did, that before the hipster nobs hijacked the look. so as iam getting balder I keep hair a short as poss and grow a tidy beard as not to look to scruffy for work. been tempted to grow it out might do if I go to new Zealand or oz just to come back and look like a groovy time traveller. In a way who cares what we look like, our minds paint an image right or wrong, avatars do project the perception of what we would like people to see us look like that's a good thing.

Mine has gone too haven't worked out how to add a new one yet or what to have. My old Avatar was a photo of me.