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Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
Coward:
--- Quote from: Emaline on 01 Feb 2009, 02:10 ---That's a lie. Romance and weird stuff leads you to being suicidally depressed.
I suggest you try it if you think it is so dandy.
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If that were true then The Princess Bride would not be the best story ever told which is, quite clearly, inconceivable.
Smile.
McTaggart:
It's fun, like whitewater rafting without a raft or a paddle is fun.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Coward on 01 Feb 2009, 02:34 ---If that were true then The Princess Bride would not be the best story ever told which is, quite clearly, inconceivable.
--- End quote ---
The Princess Bride is a work of fiction. Works of fiction often lie to us. They often lead us to believe that life is meant to be a particular way, full of romance and weirdness, when in fact life is very often not like that at all. Then sometimes we get depressed because our life is not what we've been led to believe life is meant to be like.
Sometimes being grown-up means saying goodbye to romance and weird stuff. Maybe that sucks, but maybe it means you're ready to stop messing around with silly stuff and engage with your life on a deeper and more honest and fulfilling level, too. Maybe.
In any case, don't confuse life and fiction. Only bad things will happen.
Barmymoo:
I actually cried when my Hogwarts letter didn't arrive on my eleventh birthday. That is what fiction does to you, people.
I have spent the entire afternoon exchanging emails with my sociology teacher. She has sent me 28 emails in under two hours. I hope the college never take it upon themselves to monitor their staff's socialising or she'll probably be fired, or at least placed under investigation. But it is totally innocent and highly amusing.
It's snowed a little bit on and off all day, and I'm hoping it won't snow hard overnight and snow me in because tomorrow is the first informal open mic at college and I'm really looking forwards to it. When I first arrived at the college there was really nothing much to do at all, but in the last year and a half they've hired a new Enrichment coordinator who makes things happen and also the aforementioned sociology teacher who motivates other people to make things happen (it's her influence on me that means this open mic thing is happening, and she set up the college paper). It's really great to be seeing the start of a load of things that could last and last and really make our college a proper community instead of a collection of people who wander in every day or so for about two years and then leave without a backward glance.
Coward:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 01 Feb 2009, 04:54 ---
--- Quote from: Coward on 01 Feb 2009, 02:34 ---If that were true then The Princess Bride would not be the best story ever told which is, quite clearly, inconceivable.
--- End quote ---
The Princess Bride is a work of fiction. Works of fiction often lie to us. They often lead us to believe that life is meant to be a particular way, full of romance and weirdness, when in fact life is very often not like that at all. Then sometimes we get depressed because our life is not what we've been led to believe life is meant to be like.
Sometimes being grown-up means saying goodbye to romance and weird stuff. Maybe that sucks, but maybe it means you're ready to stop messing around with silly stuff and engage with your life on a deeper and more honest and fulfilling level, too. Maybe.
In any case, don't confuse life and fiction. Only bad things will happen.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, cheers.
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