Avatars are creations that depict a certain person or event. Whether or not they are significant to an outside source varies from person to person. These avatars are able to be streamlined to fit a certain crowd (unlike advertisements) because their primary goal isn't to attract everyone's individual attention.
Avatars can also be deceiving. They aren't always true to their appearance. One avatar could show a grand festival in a local town dedicated to medieval Europe but when you arrive, there is only one attraction and the crowd of people shown in the picture has died down to 2 attendees.
Avatars don't have to be tangible either, they can be mental images. For example, a college graduate is wise and can hold their own in life. They will be successful due to their academic successes. I don't know about others, but since coming to college, my depiction of a fruitful life went from gliding through a major and scraping in my earnings to just trying to survive. In all honesty, the false hope given by the mental avatar is just another addition to the pessimistic outlook I have now taken on. I don't know what major I want to pursue, nor do I know what truly interests me. I have always been academically gifted and am able to give educated retorts rather than irrational hostile replies in an argument. Of the two, only one is a career path. Using my academic skills, I can pursue a major with a good payroll and be miserable for 40 years until I am near the brink of death. With "rational" arguing, I can be a hated politician or a guy in his mother's basement arguing online with incompetent buffoons on whether or not the United States dollar holds higher value due to lasting stability vs currently rising "price" value.
All in all Avatars are a depiction of something, not the actual something. Literal people will fail to realize this and will be disappointed the rest of their lives.
This is CJ Perkins and I approve this publishing.
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