Dear Friend (whoever you are),
I do not think I’m going to be posting too often. This year is much more demanding than last. There are days when it seems like all I do is school, work, sleep.
Which brings me to what I want to say today, how much do you actually THINK? I’m not talking about at school, where you’re (usually, Dear Friend, should be) thinking about the subject you’re being taught. Not when you’re watching TV, then you’re focused on the show. Not when you’re at work, thinking about work. That’s not original thinking, and I’m talking about original thoughts. Original thoughts.
How many original thoughts, not put there by someone else, do you really have in one day?
Are there days when all you do is follow the pattern? When all you do is think thoughts someone else put in your head? When all you do is school, work, sleep?
Sometimes it seems the only original thoughts I really have are right before I go to bed. And that, Dear Friend, is a very scary though.
What happens when NO ONE actually THINKS? (Or at least when the majority do not think.) What will we do then, Dear Friend, when all everyone does is follow everyone else and think what they want others to think. What then. Dear Friend, what then?
Keep on thinking.
Until next time,
Anonymous Writer.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
SMACK quote
Dear friend, (whoever you are)
Last post I talked about “enchanting” people. Then I came across a passage in another book I really liked (the passage, not the book. Not saying the book was bad, just that I haven’t finished it yet). The book was SMACK by Melvin Burgess and this is what it said:
“Did you ever see someone and think straightaway, I want to be that person? I want to look like her and think like her and have the same effect as she does…you know? This girl—nothing mattered to her. All the rules, all the things you do do and don’t do, the manners, everything—she had none of that. If she didn’t like it she just didn’t do it. If she did it, it was good. She didn’t have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.”
Now that girl, she was an enchanting person, dear friend, and I quiet enjoyed reading that passage about her (she already enchants me, as the reader).
Until next time,
Anonymous Writer
P.s. I’d like to say that I don’t own SMACK and I don’t necessarily support or approve of anything in the book, or the girl described above’s decisions. I just liked the quote.
Last post I talked about “enchanting” people. Then I came across a passage in another book I really liked (the passage, not the book. Not saying the book was bad, just that I haven’t finished it yet). The book was SMACK by Melvin Burgess and this is what it said:
“Did you ever see someone and think straightaway, I want to be that person? I want to look like her and think like her and have the same effect as she does…you know? This girl—nothing mattered to her. All the rules, all the things you do do and don’t do, the manners, everything—she had none of that. If she didn’t like it she just didn’t do it. If she did it, it was good. She didn’t have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.”
Now that girl, she was an enchanting person, dear friend, and I quiet enjoyed reading that passage about her (she already enchants me, as the reader).
Until next time,
Anonymous Writer
P.s. I’d like to say that I don’t own SMACK and I don’t necessarily support or approve of anything in the book, or the girl described above’s decisions. I just liked the quote.
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