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This is completely experimental, i'd appreciate if you actually took a moment to tell me how this made you feel, what you think about it, if there was more if you would read it, what advice you might have. I'm interested in this concept. Very basic, I'm trying to make more, so perhaps there will be.
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I agree with Sedrin, this IS a very interesting piece.
Answer to your questions: How did this make me feel? "Nostalgic" is completely the wrong word, but your words instantly took me back to a time when I was wrestling with very similar concerns. Definitely not an easy time in my life (I felt very alone, and very out of my "real place"--whatever that may have been, because I certainly didn't know), and I felt this about every aspect of my life then, from the most commonplace to the most profound (by my standards at that time).
What do I think about what you've done here? I think you're in your own deep process, sorting through what IS (in truth) you...and what is NOT you (at least as reflected by these words). A most uncomfortable and most unsettling feeling, because everything seems to be shifting. What were assumed to be foundations are quaking and the Richter scale is topping out, the waves reverberating from the deepest part of Earth (life) itself. It's a process, and it's vital, and those who do not feel this (as well as those who do feel it but choose to seek apparent "shelter" in the well known and seemingly "safe and comfortable"), shortcut their opportunities...usually for the rest of their lives.
On the other side of this passage is self-knowledge, out of which comes self-confidence and self-direction--but most people never get to the other side. They die knowing that they cut themselves down so they could fit into one or another of the acceptable molds by the standards of their everyday lives...and they die resentful of the things that were rightfully theirs to claim, but they instead declined. Real comfort only comes on the OTHER side of that bridge, but first the bridge must be crossed. This is the Hero's Journey, in ancient times as well as today. Those who decline the invitation to their own authenticy "pay" for that choice in deep dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and a sense of being cheated out of what they KNOW was rightfully theirs for the rest of their lives> They let themselves down, they know it, and they cannot ignore their own inner truth, no matter how hard they try.
Advice: Read THE WRITER'S JOURNEY:Mythic Structure For Writers (Third Edition) by Christopher Vogler. It's invaluable as advice for life itself (and as advice for writers as well). Should be available in any good bookstore or online from any major book source. (www.mwp.com )
This is one of the best pieces of work I've read on this board because it thoughtfully questions the most important maturation dilemmas of life.
Good job.
Answer to your questions: How did this make me feel? "Nostalgic" is completely the wrong word, but your words instantly took me back to a time when I was wrestling with very similar concerns. Definitely not an easy time in my life (I felt very alone, and very out of my "real place"--whatever that may have been, because I certainly didn't know), and I felt this about every aspect of my life then, from the most commonplace to the most profound (by my standards at that time).
What do I think about what you've done here? I think you're in your own deep process, sorting through what IS (in truth) you...and what is NOT you (at least as reflected by these words). A most uncomfortable and most unsettling feeling, because everything seems to be shifting. What were assumed to be foundations are quaking and the Richter scale is topping out, the waves reverberating from the deepest part of Earth (life) itself. It's a process, and it's vital, and those who do not feel this (as well as those who do feel it but choose to seek apparent "shelter" in the well known and seemingly "safe and comfortable"), shortcut their opportunities...usually for the rest of their lives.
On the other side of this passage is self-knowledge, out of which comes self-confidence and self-direction--but most people never get to the other side. They die knowing that they cut themselves down so they could fit into one or another of the acceptable molds by the standards of their everyday lives...and they die resentful of the things that were rightfully theirs to claim, but they instead declined. Real comfort only comes on the OTHER side of that bridge, but first the bridge must be crossed. This is the Hero's Journey, in ancient times as well as today. Those who decline the invitation to their own authenticy "pay" for that choice in deep dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and a sense of being cheated out of what they KNOW was rightfully theirs for the rest of their lives> They let themselves down, they know it, and they cannot ignore their own inner truth, no matter how hard they try.
Advice: Read THE WRITER'S JOURNEY:Mythic Structure For Writers (Third Edition) by Christopher Vogler. It's invaluable as advice for life itself (and as advice for writers as well). Should be available in any good bookstore or online from any major book source. (www.mwp.com )
This is one of the best pieces of work I've read on this board because it thoughtfully questions the most important maturation dilemmas of life.
Good job.
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