"It could happen to you, like it happened to me,
There is no immunity, no gurantee"
No I am not talking about laab, or laau or love. This is about the complete and total identification with the characters in the book you read, the film you see. A few weeks ago I was a gay, confused charming fella in Britain, today I'm Fanny Price - dirty, starving and charmless in Paris hanging dead from a string of rope.
It's not a good feeling being depressed by an external stimuli and I have done it to myself countless times.
I remember walking out of 'The Thomas Crown Affair' screening, feeling every bit as sexy, smart and fruity (in a lush sort of way) as Rene Russo. Then my heel broke and I hobbled to the nearest mochi but that's besides the point. My point is, am I essentially without a personality then, since I take on alter egos so quickly.
I get children flinging themselves off furniture because they KNOW they'll fly, just like superwoman, but this? At the age of 23?
Very pissing off.
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Everytime I leave my local comic book store I raise my clenched fists, hoping that just this once, adamantium-laced claws will pop right out.
ReplyDeleteAlas, still no luck.
heh..empathetic souls aren't we.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Well, I'm the same -swooshes light sabre - but not always. Good thing too, otherwise, as per the last movie I watched, I'd be a long-haired dead girl living in the bottom of a well. And long hair really doesn't suit me.
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ReplyDeleteditch Samara, think Hell Boy :)
ReplyDeleteStumbled across your blog.
ReplyDeleteIt's a riveting read.
You do make a lot many of us 'bloggers' feel like pretenders.
Cheers!
Rohan
Empathetic indeed. Must be our mutant powers.
ReplyDeleteNew person commenting alert! Thankyee rohan and should I be concerned that mostly bongs read my blog.
ReplyDeleteAnd G9, somehow my mutant eyeballs seem to have locked on to the 'pathetic' part...the prefix has meaning too, but is too pocha to be put down in words >:)
I know you were talking to Rohan, but what is a 'bong'? I only know one definition - an implement used for smoking pot - and I am most definitely not one.
ReplyDeleteBong is slang for Bengalis, an Indian community of irritatingly intelligent and/or beautiful people. Or a sad average of both like me.
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