Comments | faeriemaiden: every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph

faeriemaiden

every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph

Aug 15, 2009 11:31

I've been thinking about this for several days, especially since I've been digging through colleges again and trying to understand how I can fit the things I want so badly to study into one interconnected whole. So, here it is:

I want to major in Story.

Watching this beautiful, beautiful video from Ukraine's Got Talent clinched it for me -- because ( Read more... )

story, wonderlust, the writing life, life and love and why

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bornofstars August 15 2009, 16:44:55 UTC

That video blew my mind. How does one manage to manipulate sand like that?

This post...yes. Yes. What is life without the stories we tell, to ourselves and to others?

faeriemaiden August 17 2009, 01:12:08 UTC

I know, right? And I loved that even though I couldn't quite understand the details of the story sometimes, I got the core of it, without any words -- and the way it was so captivating to watch someone basically draw and erase pictures like that? BLIMEY.

aliseadae August 15 2009, 17:12:13 UTC

You can send essays to colleges. They always want a college application essay.

And this, this is what I want to. I want story and meaning and the /why/ of things. I want myth and culture and what people believe and why they believe it and why it is important to them.

aliseadae August 16 2009, 04:22:03 UTC

And this post means so much to me because it expresses what is true about me too. I am made of stories. I want to learn about the stories behind everything. I want to learn the stories of culture, of myth, of folklore. I want to learn the stories of stories.

I have added this to my memories.

faeriemaiden August 17 2009, 21:56:57 UTC

♥! Quite chuffed to be awarded such an honour. :D (You know, I was a dreadful eavesdropper as a child, too; I'd sit on the stairs for hours listening to one side of a telephone conversation that A Grown-Up was having. I don't remember uncovering any real secrets, but that wasn't what I was listening for. They just talked about such interesting things!)

lady_moriel August 16 2009, 01:05:14 UTC

Sigh. Yeah. I think I'd have got disenchanted with college a lot less soon if I could've figured out a way to do this, because...yeah. I mean, take my interest in idiom and slang, for instance--I don't find it fascinating just because I'm a linguistic geek, although that's part of it, but because it's about people, and human behavior, and how language evolves and develops in actual usage, and somehow that seems more real than other kinds of language development even though really I suppose it's all the same. I don't think I can even quite articulate what I'm getting at, actually. But it is about stories, all of it; that's the most universal human thing there is, telling stories.

Just based on what I've seen in UAA's catalog, I have the feeling you might get the closest to this with a general Liberal Arts/Liberal Studies major, although...not sure really, because that tends to involve some sciency stuff too, so...

aliseadae August 16 2009, 04:16:21 UTC

That sounds like Linguistic Anthropology to me!

I should go sit and read that book of Linguistic Anthropology that I bought this summer.

faeriemaiden August 17 2009, 21:57:47 UTC

Oh my goodness, it's an actual field of study? Library, here I come!

take_a_sadsong August 16 2009, 01:29:42 UTC

Oh gosh Jo, this post may be my favourite of all your posts that I've read thus far. It is beautiful and I feel like you are reading my heart with it. I love Story, too. Story is me, and my heart and my pulse are elementally built with it. I know just how you feel. Everything I love is mixed with storytelling, too, (except that I really would love to work for NASA, because my other love besides stories is infinity; it's endless and a story all its own), and I want to study it too. Basically everything you said here is exactly how I feel. I've been researching Celtic culture like I always wanted to, and I'm seeing all these connections between the Celtic nations and their folklore and how it--Arthurian legend for example--changes so much and yet it still has so many common bonds. And it just inspires you to research and to write more and to become more interesting by being more interested ( ... )

faeriemaiden August 17 2009, 01:15:17 UTC

And, you know, Jesus knew that the best way to reach people and make them understand things? Was by telling stories. We're in good company. :)

tobie_rosemary August 16 2009, 06:53:56 UTC

Very beautiful.

Keep one thing in mind, that I have learned over the last year or two: learning about Story is not something you find, but something you bring with you. The University will not offer it to you. In part you must create it.

However, if you go to a university expecting to find it, you probably will. :)

(Sorry, it is way late at night and I've no idea if any of that made sense.)

faeriemaiden August 17 2009, 01:13:52 UTC

Well, Emerson and Hampshire actually will at least almost offer it to me, which is why I have my eye on them. Hampshire is especially known for self-created curriculum, which is pretty cool.

But yes, a lot of people don't seem to understand that if you look hard enough for something, you will probably find it, or make it.