Shakespeare had it right with his "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." It's like one gigantic movie unfolding minute by minute and can you really be at fault if you document some of it in its original form? Not at all. I think. I'm not sure yet, but that would make a really goode story too. It definitely exists already in some form, but most of the ideas you'll encounter aren't original ones, merely recycled. It's all in the presentation, which is going to change from person to person, so don't worry if you think the idea itself has happened before, because Neil Gaiman once wrote the most genius sentence ever:
"There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr Ibis in his perfect copper-plate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is detail."
It's really the detail that we're responsible for presenting from out of our own selves.
Of all the feelings, it feels best to have ideas again. I haven't used my writing sketchbooks this much since the summer
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"GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And the same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying. "
KEATING
Meeks. Another unusual name. Seize the
day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Why does the writer use these lines?
CHARLIE
Because he's in a hurry.
KEATING
No, ding!
Keating slams his hand down on an imaginary buzzer.
KEATING
Thank you for playing anyway. Because we
are food for worms lads. Because, believe
it or not, each and every one of us in
this room is one day going to stop
breathing, turn cold, and die.
Dead Poets Society, definitely the best movie to watch in times like these. Earlier this morning I thought again about the different kinds of intelligence and how one is no less important than the other and how terrifyingly necessary it is to remember that.
But back to DPS, it can't be stressed enough, if you know what you want, then go for it. Do not wait. And if you're mulling it over with an 'Oh blah dee blah but what if this goes wrong?[interrobang]" then think back to the only worthwhile thing that's ever come from that ridiculously terrible show Grey's Anatomy:
"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying."
I write about it because it's so oft forgot.
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