I will tell you one true thing about myself, and that is that I am a compulsive liar.
The unfortunate thing is that I so often can’t explain this to others. It’s hard to admit that you are someone who recreationally lies - and as far as side-hobbies go, it’s one that’s far from prestigious. This is the creative mind’s quandary, perhaps, as we are so desperate to portray the truth that we simply must create it. Our minds are too broad and expansive for the baseless world before us. We want more – we want to fabricate our realities so that they adhere to the rippling and ever-changing abstractions of our mind. As one friend of mine said, “We make our mentalities our realities.”
This is a cutesy way of saying that we screw things up for a living.
After all, what love does a writer have for simple solutions? For happy beginnings that simply merge into a happy end? Besides this, let’s face it – we’re a depressive bunch, ranging from alcoholics to nihilists, from antisocial rejects to extroverted extremists with no place in the drab confines of our stifling society. What desire would we of all people have to write a story about a girl skipping around in a poodle-skirt singing “What a Wonderful World?”
But I digress.
My point is this – we are not satisfied. Not with anything. That’s why we write. Even happiness gives way to our clandestine desire for a cathartic pain. We simply cannot be appeased. Now this may seem like negative quality, but it is only due to our deeply-rooted desire to feel everything …and to expose it. So long as one person sleeps on the streets tonight, we will write. So long as one person dies, we will write. So long as there are some finite remnants of humanity, there will be a writer, or a story-teller in the least.
While I stated earlier that we like to screw things up, I think it’s fair to say that we then proceed to try to fix them, or at least to tell others to fix them, in a way that is satisfying to us. We are simply trying to come to a desirable conclusion. That doesn’t mean that the conclusion will be a happy one, but rather that it will be one that makes the world comprehendible and perhaps bearable. Like surgeons, we dissect and analyze and relay grave news far too often – but we also change lives and do our best to make things suck just a little less.
I’d like to think so, anyway.
So, fellow liars, losers, and eccentrics, lend me your ear – thank God or Allah or the laws of quantum physics for the fact that you are so distraught. You are changing the world, and with the pain of shrugging that weighty world onto your shoulders, you are doing your best to do what you can for everyone who ever picks up your work. We may never be understood, but the least we can do is try to share our love of this unfathomable universe with those who dare to listen.
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I guess you are indeed very bold enough to say that you are an liar... Not many do that including me... Your title is awesome and I can see the depth and the truth in your work. 'So as long as one dies, we will write" this one seems to be unrealistic, one has to die but the consequence is important. If he dies in a riot we will write or in a shootout, etc. If u had mentioned it, this would have got an nice impact to the idea that your explaining. Other than that I loved your work.... Keep writing... Looking forward for your work....
Wow!
I found this a very intriguing read, while as Veeran said, you do present a stereotype, it is done in such a wonderful and thoughtful manner that I don't care.
Your ideas are clear and presented in such a fashion that I want to read more, and being one that stays clear of essays at all costs, that is an achievement.
I have very little to crticise, except for the fact that you could have written more. It just feels like their is a massive bucket filled with all these ideas and you have only just scooped the top off of them.
But all round great work.
I'd normally sit here and list all of the nitpicks I can find in a piece, and then conclude by stating my general opinion on what I've just read. In this case, however, you've managed to write a work so intriguing that I don't feel my nitpicks will be of any help. So instead I'll give a rather extensive overview.
ne problem though, if it can be counted as such. Going back to the classification of 'essay', it isn't exactly written as formally as one.
I always have to write an idea I have or a character.
I know this is under the classification of an 'essay', which is why it wouldn't make sense for me point out problems in things like story progression, or flow - both of which you seem to have done excellently, by the way. You move from idea to idea in such a fashion that it's easy to follow and intriguing to read.
Heyo, reviewer here to review.
I'd normally sit here and list all of the nitpicks I can find in a piece, and then conclude by stating my general opinion on what I've just read. In this case, however, you've managed to write a work so intriguing that I don't feel my nitpicks will be of any help. So instead I'll give a rather extensive overview.
What you present here is a personal stereotype, an opinion that may or may not be shared with a select few, but is not widely viewed or accepted as truth. It's what I'd call a generalization at it's finest - and it's so brilliantly done that I applaud you.
I know this is under the classification of an 'essay', which is why it wouldn't make sense for me point out problems in things like story progression, or flow - both of which you seem to have done excellently, by the way. You move from idea to idea in such a fashion that it's easy to follow and intriguing to read. And this being the essay it is, I feel like I'm supposed to point out that both you're introduction and conclusion were straightforward, as well as the latter being very fun to read.
One problem though, if it can be counted as such. Going back to the classification of 'essay', it isn't exactly written as formally as one. Not once, nor twice, but four times do you put a single sentence on it's own island. This, by all standards I've followed, isn't proper for any type of essay.
Other than that, you're gold. It was very enjoyable, not to mention entertaining.
Keep on writing.
I think you're right. I always have to write an idea I have or a character. My stories are always fiction too because I find real stories dull. Why read something I see everyday when I can read something that broadens my imagination and inspires me