Saturday, May 2, 2009

If Life Was Like a Story...

I've been thinking off and on about this idea for awhile now. I have joined a penpal site, and sometimes, people don't respond, or they have many friends they talk about, but I don't know them. I know this probably sounds weird...But I've come to realize that everyone has a story. How they came to be the person they are today. What made them that way, who they're friends are, and why they are the way they are. When you write a book, a character must be introduced. It's like they are being created from scratch in front of your eyes. They have no prior history, they can focus all their attention on you, you don't have to be careful how you act around them, because they have no prior history, so they have no memories or which could be triggered.

I guess what I'm saying, is that making friends is difficult. It'd be much easier if when you are trying to make friends, you don't have to compete with the old ones they already have. You don't have to worry about prior histories of friendships, relationships, and other things. I wish life could be like a story you're writing yourself, where you can make up people as you meet them, and if you don't like that person, or you make a bad mistake, you can delete it easily, and not have any repercussions. But I guess the problem with this is that you would never learn from your mistakes, and you would be bound to continuously repeat the same thing over and over again. But if you are the one writing the story, then you will still have to memory of that mistake, and you wouldn't repeat it even if you deleted it...hmm, fascinating topic...The way I suggested it, it sounds like if you delete something from your "story" then, you would also delete it from your memory, but I also described it as if you delete something from you "story" then it wouldn't be deleted from your memory...Hard to decide which is better...

I will think on this some more, and get back to  you.
Happy Reading!

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