Your Metaphors

[Grunde des Seins]

love to know ----> What are the metaphors which represent yourself & your life?

 

[Words]

a screwdriver.

 

[ashitaria]

A train.

And in so many ways.

 

[Subotai]

An encrypted encyclopia

 

[Sparrow]

A broken pendulum

 

[Agent Intellect]

An empty toy bin.

 

[Chronomar]

A drop of water. I live in the water cycle.

 

[Words]

What if our lives were literally objects.

 

[Dormouse]

What if our lives were literally objects.

Win.

Though I can't decide what I'd be... An old typewriter. Or maybe a sequin.

As for the metaphor... That song you kinda liked, but never caught the name of.

 

[Cognisant]

A hubcap, by the roadside.

I like to think they've escaped for a life of freedom and adventure.

 

[Anthile]

A hammer floating through vacuum.

 

[Pythia]

A red ribbon stuck on a tree branch

 

[Anthile]

A red ribbon stuck on a tree branch

Nah, I like you more as a cup of coffee.

 

[Mello]

A cake.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

Nah, I like you more as a cup of coffee.

I think Anthile is this:

I'm not sure what I am. I think it's actually two different questions: "What are the metaphors which represent yourself & your life?" Most of you have been sharing metaphors about Yourself instead of Your Life.

Okay so... for my life... a good metaphor is "an uphill battle on a tricycle". (Stolen from general INTP lore! )

 

[Audentia]

A crane with clipped wings.

 

[Audentia]

A hubcap, by the roadside.

I like to think they've escaped for a life of freedom and adventure.

Lol.. I loved this.

 

[Anthile]

I think Anthile is this:

So if I am an anthill... then you are:

 

[Cognisant]

Aww, that's wonderful.
Heath Ledger in heaven, dressed as joker because... well wouldn't you be?

 

[Deleted member 1424]

One missing piece to a 2000 piece puzzle.

 

[Grunde des Seins]

LIFE IS A MASK AND I AM A FALSE IDEA

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

So if I am an anthill... then you are:

lol!

You know, Heath Ledger died on my 21st birthday. True story.

 

[Chimera]

A phoenix content to wait in the ashes indefinitely.​

 

[Geminii]

A large, transparent, acrylic box, with an open top, filled with hundreds of moving, clanking, clicking, spinning, brass mechanical components. Occasionally, bizarre structures will jerkily assemble, rise above the lip, and eventually be disassembled, as if they were computational side effects of some complex clockwork program.

 

[Polaris]

Some skulking animal in the night.

 

[EditorOne]

The piece that got in the box from another puzzle.

 

[shoeless]

i like this thread.

the wheel on a broken bike that's still spinning.

 

[Cogwulf]

A key-less piano

 

[Ungomma]

A cracking globe.

 

[Yellow]

an eternal trick birthday candle.... the endless sparkle and fade.

 

[amorfati]

A single word in a whole story which is actually just a typo.

 

[bluesquid]

speck of giant