It's uncanny how self aware I can be yet still remain this awful. I'd been rotting over why my stories don't work; and I came up with this anaology of the many problems writers have with the characters from "The Wizard of Oz." I saw myself to be The Tin Man, lacking the "heart" to be a writer. It's that I can't give any personality to my characters, and my stories don't really have any emotional drive to them. I thought it was my lack of expressing emotions, but I've owing up to the fact that it's the much larger probelem of not having nor wanting a socical life that's gotten me so detached from understanding any persona; including my own, partly. There's never been a stable, conservitave group of individuals that I've wanted to have a normal life with where I live. Sure I've tried my best to hang around, I've made a few laughs with other people, but for the most part I remain an anti-converser; compleately ignornant to most of the topics dicussed around me, and resistant to almost every activity I've been invited to throughout my school life. There's only one probelem with my anaology; I don't know what to assoiate the rest of Oz with. I suppose the scarecrow could be the one of those writers for those lame Saturday Morning cartoons, or someone who just attempts to revamp an previously popular idea like Underdog or Speed Racer....The lion could be the anti-artist pro-franchise writer who doesn't want to work out of the box, uses generic dialouge, cardboard or near-flat characters, and little to no creative liberties. I still don't know what the rest of Oz and Dorothy/Tonto could stand for...but other than that not a bad idea about bad ideas, eh?
Wow, great analogy! Unfortunately, I can't think of any suggestions for the other characters ... (unless maybe the Wizard is the faceless corporation that everyone assumes will empower the creators ... but, in the end, has nothing of real value to offer).
I can very much relate to your sentiments, dude. I am usually quite the homebody, and "small talk" gets on my nerves after a very short while...
...but I have found that my life really stinks when I don't get around other people. Even if I don't feel like being around other people at a prticular moment, my life is more blanced and it's easier to keep perspective on things.
If I'm the only one around, it's easy to start navel-gazing about my own problems and hangups. All the sudden my problems become very big and my desires become very big and it's very easy to lose perspective.
So make it a point to do some things you don't feel like doing at the moment and then enjoy the fact that the decision is made and you're doing it.
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...but I have found that my life really stinks when I don't get around other people. Even if I don't feel like being around other people at a prticular moment, my life is more blanced and it's easier to keep perspective on things.
If I'm the only one around, it's easy to start navel-gazing about my own problems and hangups. All the sudden my problems become very big and my desires become very big and it's very easy to lose perspective.
So make it a point to do some things you don't feel like doing at the moment and then enjoy the fact that the decision is made and you're doing it.
Good post, man. Be encouraged.
~R
I wish I'd thought of it myself!