not yet dead
I buy into roles. I think this is where I fuck up. I liked those 'ragtag team' kids movies where there's the fat kid, the leader, the fnny kid, et al. Yes, they were two-dimensional, but I liked the guarantee. No matter where the funny kid goes, he's always going to be funny. Sure, we all know character depth is a good thing, but there's something so enticing about two-dimensional excellence. I want that guarantee.
"I wanted Mary Anne from "Gilligan's Island" ugly, not Cornelius from "Planet of the Apes, ugly". TV-ugly, not ugly-ugly." -- The Simpsons, Season 11 (Pygmoelian)
Personality is a byproduct of your experiences. it is nurture, not nature, and neither is it what you should actually aim for. If it is, you're missing the point. I used to want to go back to who I used to be. I wanted to be who I was before that SHITSTORM in highschool happened. I wanted to be carefree again. What I didn't realize was that the shitstorm was no reason to change myself. All I had to do was just incorporate this new experience into who I already was.
"Be who you've always been. Just be this, too." -- Metatron to Bethany, 'Dogma'
I don't know. Cliches are cliches because they're true. Nobody's perfect. Twenty one years of Hallmark catch phrases hammered it into my brain, but now I see that I never really understood it. I think I still don't understand it, a little, but do I really have time for this when I have shitloads of reading to do.