Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Reality - What is it Good For?
Recently a friend of mine sent an email in which he said “The existential horror of life freaks me out sometime.” I can't remember what was being discussed and I am too lazy to go back and search for the thread, but I thought of this quote this morning while driving in to the office this morning. I was thinking about writing a piece on how I am one of those people that has his head in the clouds all the time. Sometimes this tendency to perceive the reality I desire rather than "true" reality worries me. I like how I interact with the world. I like the fact that I am usually looking for the good in a situation and I believe that people are inherently good and their nature is to strive to do good for society and other people. It worries me though. I will be driving along and get caught up in my daydreams, thinking wouldn't it be cool if my car could transform into a giant robot so I can just walk through this intersection and scare the CRAP out of the cop over there? I drive by this subdivision named Castlegate, which has a pretty cool gatehouse, and I can't help but think how they should have put up a curtain wall around the whole community, and in my mind there is one, just cleverly hidden by the trees. Sometimes when I am writing a report at work I pretend that it is something much more important, something cool like an after-action report or a National Intelligence estimate, you know, something that matters, not another paper on why such and such is a stupid idea. There are also a lot of empty fields around my current abode, several of them with a couple head of cattle. Every time I drive by I can't help but look at those Big-Macs-on-the-hoof and think that cows suck and the ranchers really need to have dinosaurs there instead. I think that is why I aspire to be a writer. I want to help people let slip the bonds of this mucky reality and show them the fantastical world I live in, and since I can't draw to save my life, writing is the one avenue left open to me.
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the way your mind works totally amazes me. i wish i had half of the creative ability you possess. i know you will be an awesome writer and a great inspiration to others someday....maybe today!
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