Read aloud, let it settle, process and then react. Don't assume that it's me and hence it will be one way and not another and tell me what you think.
We don't always know everything about everything, but we do know something about some things and a lot about others- sometimes we even know almost everything about some things. Some we know, others we think we know and yet others we make ourselves believe 'cuz they're being said of by others we know, or who claim to know us and us them. Point is- we lose perspective. Of who we are, what we stand for and what the other person means to us.
Whether you came across a person reading a book, browsing a magazine or watching a movie- you either like the character or don't; you pick up a few traits you wished you had, some you have and others you'd rather no one around you did.
What attracts me most, now that I sit to think about it, is the fact that I KNOW what happens to the person in the end. That there is a happily ever after, and a proper way to get there. Take for example a very typical case- man/woman is from a broken family, and has learnt to not believe in "soul mates" and "love" (you'd think I were obsessed with the issue); that's how she lives life and treats all the relationships she encounters- nothing lasts forever. But then, there comes along a woman/man who refuses to give up on them- who refutes everything they've ever believed in; and slowly they thaw, give in, realize that it was all a shield, take a risk and there's the whole walking into the sunset.
So what do I do? Make myself believe in exactly all that. I know what's to happen to such a person down the road. I know what others like about these people, I know what they don't. And I do that.
Take an approx number of the number of books I've read in say only this past year- 1000? 10,000? Something in between- whatever. Add up all the people I've read about, watched and observed and you get a rough estimate of how many traits I've incorporated and how many I've chucked. What does that make me?
One helluva patch worked quilt, that's what.
The answer doesn't bother me as much as the implications of it do. How much original? If anything at all, that is. How much fake? How much just an effort at being something I'm not?
There was a point to all this, I swear. Now if I could only remember what it was.
Ahh.. i was bored and was surfing the internet. i was checking my orkut and mail. Then i started thinking is it worth it? to check my orkut i know that does not have any new scraps? is it worth cheking mail that gets only junk? so i decided to go blog reading. i read this really long post on something that got me thinking in the end..
The lines along which i was thinking are : There was a comment i could post to all this, I swear. Now if I could only remember what it was.
Audios
Rythwin
We biologists (me included) call it the classical feud between nature and nurture.
How much of a person's trait can you attribute to the person alone (like a nose twitch or a birthmark) and how much is the behaviour influenced by events around him/her?
I am one who probably has nothing he can call his own, I mean thoughts...all my thoughts are someway or the other an amalgam of things I've picked up all around me. But the reason why I've picked them up is completely upto me.
So go ahead, make yourself a mish mash of whatever is around you....I hope this is somewhat the point you were trying to make.
take care
@ Ry: Oh joy! I can't wait to hear this one.
@ Nav: Yes, it was the point I was trying to make. Only, somehow I feel cheated. Like... well, I'm just wondering whether there's anything of me in all this.
Blah.
Thanks for dropping by you two,
All my love.
P.S. Ry, Orkut sucks. There's definitely more to life than worrying about the number of scraps you got today, and how many more that is than someone else. Chuck it, you'll be happier. It's the clutter theory of mine.
Your intelligent rambling coupled with the fact that you liked my blog suggests that you might not be as 'sthupit' as you claim to be :)
I shall frequent your blog often.
PS: Do check out my very first blog entry. I am curious to know what you think!
Aah. It'll be a pleasure to correct you.
It's always nice to have fresh blood!
SG.
From your comment, I notice you like your Hobson's choices. Well, I was talking about the first blog entry which is not quite where you commented.
http://copperboy78.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-am-black-in-rainbow.html
I hope the pun is intended when you say you like 'your fresh blood'. Later.
hmmm...
interesting.. u r right...
got too busy lately... cldn't get time to read ue blog.. though i did see something new posted here.. but finally today read this one..
good one!
all the best..
keep writing
Love
Ira
Hmmm...
Biting the random bug are we?
Good, good. I shall now name this "Bungee Writing"!
*CRACK*
Exhilarating experience, blood rushing to the head, complete free-fall, and all over in an instant.
*chuckle*
Cheers,
Shri.
PS: New story up. Have fun.
Have been reading ur sthupithity since quite a while, but this post really forced my to ask u abt ur typical example. U sure of that????
By the by, wonderful posts. Most of 'em. ;)
Take care and keep blahing!!
@ s: done. and you'll find out.
@ Ira: We've missed you here. Hope alls well.
@ BS: Where'd you get off to mistar. Random? Really? And done.
@ v: Aah. 'Glad you broke your silence. As for the example I've cited, it's done in its broadest sense. Change a trait or two, and you have a totally new ending.
And grazie, you're too kind.
Thanks for dropping by you guys,
All my love.
dear SG,
yes alls well.. infact i've been busy wid school and then in getting my visa.. 2day i reached Swizerland.. so planning to have a gr8 holiday..
its wonderful here in geneva..
take care all the best keep writing..
i'll visit ur site wenever possible and leave a comment
Love
cheers
Ira
The person I am today is not because of the way I always think but more because of what I let myself get influenced by!!
But I believe that no other person in this world can be like me and I cannot be anybody else.... As long as I have my own identity I am happy :)
Hmmm... what you let yourself be influenced by? And where do you gather the basis for that judgement from?
Long time no see man, glad to have you back!
SG.
basically every action in the universe was set off because of a preceeding action.. so if this were true(as any respected or not-so-respected physicst will tell u it is.. as too the couple odd mad men u encounter at school) then the entire actions in the universe that is taking place right now is basically because of the very first event after the big bang(i guess u could call it the adam and eve event...) So while you would stop your questening at how much of me is me i ask the question.. is me even me? because if this were true then we are not in control of ourselves and what ever we do or even what ever we think is not of free will but caused by a concept of destiny which escapes the comprehension of the greatest minds on earth and the very fact that i am questening this is in a way ironical to..... well.. where was i???
Hmmm... There was a point to all this.. if i could only remember what it was!!
p.s word verif was pegsf... hmmm i need a peg
yours darkly in the light
but seriously the reply to ur question is its an amalgum.. you pick up certain things and do not pick up other because of the synaptic interconnections in the brain which is unique for each person(side effect of studying B.Sc. genetics).. so ur personality is what youve picked up but under the same circumstances someone else wouldave picked up different things... the very fact that you even know the concept of "me" is because of the things yuve picked up... genetically.. and psycologically
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word verif aaegtni
@ dark: I think I'll reply to all that in a post, you've got me thinking again.
'forever sthupitly.