Monday, 19 June 2006

The Second Attempt.

I tried to find a quote that would start this properly, but why rely on other peoples words when mine will do? I thought I would have realised that sooner and saved the 2minutes I spent googling for an okay intro. - ahwell, shit continues to happen in my world apparently.

The last entry of my other blog (at www.mypurplethoughts.blogspot.com) didn't tell you everything. But now that I know that certian people aren't reading this, I can be totally honest.

One of my friends kissed me. This has happened before. What I want to know is, am I doing something to provoke this? I didn't think I was, but if it's happened before then...? The other strange thing I realised (as I was walking away from him) was that I am more emotionally effected by fiction than my own life. I will (I confess) cry in a movie, but if the same thing happens to me, not a tear falls from my eyes. (wtf??) That surely isn't normal. Of course this isn't always the case, but most of the time, it is.

I wonder if other people are like that?

Anywhoo, enough philo questions. (I'm starting off on the wrong shoe)...

-Hil.

Comments:
First, I'm convinced there aren't enough philosophy questions. Here is my favorite Ursula Le Guin quote, "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." Journeys are about choices and consequences, which can be good or bad. Philosophy now, becomes action later. Keep asking questions and you'll make better choices.

Now, I noticed that you said your friend kissed you, not the other way around. Are you provoking it? Possibly, though not intentionally. People are terrible sign readers, for the most part. What may be overt kindness can be misconstrued as covert willingness. It isn't your problem, as long as you aren't encouraging the behavior with intentional cues, such as flirting with someone with whom you have no interest.

By the way, when you cry in the movies, it means the screenwriter, director, and actors have done their job...evoked emotion. The settings are perfect, the moments are scripted, and you get drawn in completely. Real life isn't that easy and the implications of a moment are too complicated to understand immediately, thus the seeming lack of emotion. Don't worry about it. If you want to cry, just watch more movies. ;)

Of course, it's all just my opinion; I could be wrong.
 
menelaus - I like your statement "if you want to cry, watch more movies." I have a little, guilty habit - when i'm really depressed about certain topics, I rent Beaches and a couple other movies and sit and watch them because I know first i'll get into the story and be pulled there emotional and then strangely enough from that release I move into getting through the stuff that's had me darkly down - so I like your opinion - doc
 
I saw beaches for the first time a few years ago with my mum. (She said it was one of those movie you have to see or everybody would gasp and say "you... haven't seen beaches??!" and give me dissaproving looks.

For some reason i didn't cry.

I think it was because people made it out to be the sadest movie you will Ever see... so I built up my expectations, then, when it came, i compared it to other movies... and... well, you know the rest.

Menelaus, just in case I haven't said this already... you seem to be a very intelligent individual. Much more so than some people who Think they are intelligent on snyp... (I really had no idea about the crying in movies/ not in real life thing.) Thanks.

And doc? I think I cry in lame movies rather than big mean-to-be tear jerkers. I have no idea why.
 
I cry or feel bad because I get into the story and the characters not so much because of the type of movie. I will admit, for instance, - I cried at the end of Matrix III sitting there all by myself in teh movie theater (I will not say anymore in case someone plans On seeing the movie, has not seen it yet and so forth and if you have, you know it was not a major tear-jerker thing more of an aww shit they did not do that....)

I often also lose it when I think beyond the story and movie (and this is for a fictional thing or real life) - meanign the movie stops and my mind keeps thinking about what happens next, how that person(s) will be changed and so on... that's often when i lose it - at the ending credits as I think about the next day in the story :) - doc
 
you're very cute doc.
 
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