The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

[mind_over_mandy]

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all:--
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So

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[mslavenderbrown]

How could one go about disturbing the universe? Hexes and jinxes, it seems to pull you along most of the time, doesn't it?

xoxo
Lavender

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[mind_over_mandy]

Quite easily really. I mean if you want to upset that delicate balance or push rather than be pulled along it is really quite easy. To do the unexpected. Out of the conventional. To not conform.

I mean honestly our society and government rests in a delicate balance where the government and the upper echelons of society make laws that govern the whole of wizarding society. Little thought of equality or fairness, thought for minority (or majority for that matter), is put into this, but rather what those few minds feel is best. Imagine if I stood outside Gringott's denouncing the minister, his diplomacy, agenda, the registry, how that might upset the universe.

Or atleast mine.

Or on a grander scale incited the public to question their government.

Does not one person then have the power to disturb the universe as we know it?

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[mslavenderbrown]

It's not as easy as it sounds, though. No one has as much control as they think they have.

xo
Lavender

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[mind_over_mandy]

You have as much control as you think you do, honestly. If one feels they have no power to change their life, government, to make a difference than they do not.

If you, however, feel that you have that power, there's no limit to what you can do.

In politics we call it efficacy. Whether you feel you have the power to change your government, that your opinion matters, that you can influence policy. Obviously in Britain efficacy is quite low, else we wouldn't be as oppresed and subjected to such as this registry that is forced upon us. There is very little politcal action taken by the people.

But the term can be applied to life in general; do you have the power or capacity to produce the desired effect?

The answer is yes, but will you use this power to achieve your goals? Thus bringing me to my original question: do I dare?
~MB

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[mslavenderbrown]

Then maybe that's why I can't take contro

Well, if you're able to take things on, then I say that's wonderful to you. I just don't know that I believe that it is possible.

Well, then, I think you should, if you have something to fight for. Otherwise what's the point of having that inner power?

xoxo
Lavender

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[mind_over_mandy]

Therein lies your problem.

The problem is that upsetting this balance may lead to the detriment of others that I care for. Therefore I find myself struggling with the idea that my actions may do more harm than good.

Lavender Brown?? Gryffindor, if I am not mistaken?

~Mandy

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[mslavenderbrown]

Oh, well... I just, I don't know that I've seen anything much worth fighting for.

Yes, that's right. I was in Harry's year.

xoxo
Lavender

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[mind_over_mandy]

Surely you've found something you'd fight for, otherwise your life is meaningless, and that couldn't possibly be true.

Same year, though I was in Ravenclaw.

~Mandy