Seán H ([info]ohnefuehlen) wrote,
@ 2005-06-01 11:25:00
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Sometimes I need, really need, to write something down. Just now I was busying myself with a chore when something came to me and I had to write it down straight away. For your edification, I post it here without further comment:

Cliches are cliches for a reason, and when we try to avoid them we sometimes deny ourselves the best way of expressing something. Right now I want to avoid telling you that "something inside of me snapped", but that's honestly what happened. I felt it, heard it, exactly like when you stretch a rubber band just too far - except it happened to my soul, and it made me jump to my feet and say:

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[info]barzionus_hosh
2005-06-01 10:45 am UTC (link)
You're quite right about us sometimes denying oursleves the best way of saying something but I think it's worth adding that some cliches have been propagated and popularised despite not holding true all the time. Take for example the expression "Every cloud has a silver lining." What a bringer of false it can be.

I think sometimes I try and avoid saying things that I think are cliches but are probably not like "Life is unfair." Is that a cliche?

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[info]ohnefuehlen
2005-06-01 10:58 am UTC (link)
Mm, probably. Things like that, I think, it's not so much that it's a cliche as it's a banality. Everybody knows life is unfair because it has been said so very many times. If you say it while nodding wisely, you're not really contributing anything.

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[info]mosskat55
2005-06-01 11:30 am UTC (link)
and it made me jump to my feet and say What?

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[info]ohnefuehlen
2005-06-01 11:40 am UTC (link)
Couldn't tell you. I haven't written that story yet. I might never. Who can say?

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[info]tigersong
2005-06-01 12:29 pm UTC (link)
Anyone ever tell you you're a might pretentious?

:P

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[info]ohnefuehlen
2005-06-01 12:30 pm UTC (link)
It's mite. Tch.

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[info]leisel
2005-06-01 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Deliciously pretentious.

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[info]ohnefuehlen
2005-06-01 12:45 pm UTC (link)
And anyway, that's a bit rich coming from you. Let's have a look at your journal:

I was at that point in the middle of the night when I was sad and happy all at once. And I realized that the whole point of human existence turned on the smallest of things -- that all people are searching for that most excrutiating bittersweet moment where pleasure and pain kind of blur into each other.

In other words? All people are seeking neural stimulation.

(...)

Also, I had forgotten the brilliant power of the imagination, and it just wanted to break free in waves of imagery.


We are all capable of the perfection of God. We will all fall short.

I want to be the most loving and caring person in the world. I want to bring peace to everyone I touch.

I am in love. I am going to get married. I am going to grow old and die.

I can touch the face of God. I am blessed, and I have a plan. My life will work out. My life will be beautiful. My life is a lotus. I am the Buddha floating on the sea with the lily in the palm of my hand.

These are facts.

I am just deceiving myself.



One thing that has always struck me as frighteningly beautiful is the precariously balanced, imperfect, and mutable equilibrium of the human body... It is a beautiful system. Flawed, overly complex, and subject to disease and death -- and yet, it is these very same factors which would seem to allow life to exist as it does.


I - IV - V

So simplistic -- so many years of musical training teaching me to mock this chord progression -- and yet stilll able to reduce me to the point of tears.

And this just from your last 20 entries. Then I make one little post with some of my writing, and I'm pretentious? Fag :P

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[info]tigersong
2005-06-01 12:48 pm UTC (link)
Hmm, I thought might looked really really wrong, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why.

Give me a break, it's 6:30 in the morning!

And I never said anything about not being a hypocrite. :D

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[info]era_of_darkness
2005-06-01 08:20 pm UTC (link)
That's why you always have a notebook on hand! Even if people give you a funny look, like "Why does she have a notebook in a restaurant?"

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