Years ago...
I've always liked to write. Not as in being a writer, just writing things down. Keeping notes. I don't expect anyone else to read them so I guess they're for myself. And I've just re-claimed my files (I left them at my parents house when I moved to QLD, and only got them back because I need to do my tax), and so I grabbed out one section which was my writing/creative/diary/etc. section and started reading stuff from it (yup, don't want to do my tax). Oh and I just realised, the main thing is that I still would write exactly the same thing, almost, if not exactly, word for word, if it were me writing it now, in the same position that compelled me to write it then, but I still had hope then. So like, realising there's NOTHING different now, I'm EXACTLY the same person now, and I was happier then. I think that's it.
I want to type up what I wrote because... well I feel like it. I need to re-connect with 'myself'. That sounds stupid, but I think I had hope once. And no, I didn't write about 'hope' but I need to just connect with 'me' in a time where I did. Bleh, don't know if that really explains anything, but no one reads this anymore, so again, I'm writing for myself so I can revist things that are important to me.
24/8/06
Sitting on the train, I look around. What makes us different to the group of friends we talk and laugh with? We could have been friends, everyone is a potential friend; we have to meet people somehow.
If we'd have met before, we'd be communicating. So why do we ignore each other? Each and every one of these people is just the same as anyone else. Why don't we talk? There's no need for anyone to be alone. There are so many people in the world, so many people we see every day. Any one of them could potentially be a great friend.
Why is it considered strange to talk to strangers? They're only strangers because we haven't bothered to talk to them. And who decides where it's socialy acceptable to talk to someone for the first time? Do you have to be introduced by someone who knows both of you? Why? If you hadn't have met the "link" between the two of you, would there be any less reason to talk to them? Any less potential for friendship? The middle step, the "linking" friend seems inconsequential.
Look around you. Sitting across from you is a girl who you would have met if you'd gone to Flannigans last night. A few seats away, a guy who didn't go out last night, but plays some mean guitar. Who knows, maybe he wants to start a band?
Somewhere on the train is a friend of a friend, maybe you'll meet them at a party on the weekend. Then you can speak to them. Then it will be acceptable. But not now. Why? They're the same people now. Through six degrees of separation we could be introduced to any of these people. Yet we don't talk. After all, you don't want to be a freak who talks to strangers, do you?
I think it's clear who has their heads screwed on and who the real freaks are.
I want to type up what I wrote because... well I feel like it. I need to re-connect with 'myself'. That sounds stupid, but I think I had hope once. And no, I didn't write about 'hope' but I need to just connect with 'me' in a time where I did. Bleh, don't know if that really explains anything, but no one reads this anymore, so again, I'm writing for myself so I can revist things that are important to me.
24/8/06
Sitting on the train, I look around. What makes us different to the group of friends we talk and laugh with? We could have been friends, everyone is a potential friend; we have to meet people somehow.
If we'd have met before, we'd be communicating. So why do we ignore each other? Each and every one of these people is just the same as anyone else. Why don't we talk? There's no need for anyone to be alone. There are so many people in the world, so many people we see every day. Any one of them could potentially be a great friend.
Why is it considered strange to talk to strangers? They're only strangers because we haven't bothered to talk to them. And who decides where it's socialy acceptable to talk to someone for the first time? Do you have to be introduced by someone who knows both of you? Why? If you hadn't have met the "link" between the two of you, would there be any less reason to talk to them? Any less potential for friendship? The middle step, the "linking" friend seems inconsequential.
Look around you. Sitting across from you is a girl who you would have met if you'd gone to Flannigans last night. A few seats away, a guy who didn't go out last night, but plays some mean guitar. Who knows, maybe he wants to start a band?
Somewhere on the train is a friend of a friend, maybe you'll meet them at a party on the weekend. Then you can speak to them. Then it will be acceptable. But not now. Why? They're the same people now. Through six degrees of separation we could be introduced to any of these people. Yet we don't talk. After all, you don't want to be a freak who talks to strangers, do you?
I think it's clear who has their heads screwed on and who the real freaks are.