Thoughts

I've been thinking about the nature of blogs again, mainly since I unearthed my old site. I'm pretty certain I know everyone who's reading this. I'm sure there's some people who I don't know are reading this. I may even know them but I don't think so.

I remember reading somewhere something that pops up in my head every now and then. And that is that we (and others) can never see each other as we truly are. All we can see is the shadow we cast on the wall that's in front of us. This shadow is caused by the candle behind us which we also can't see. In other words, no one can be seen for who they truly are, all we can see is a bare outline. And from different perspectives people will see different parts of you.

Ok I just added that last part, but the first bit I read somewhere. And it may not be the best metaphor. I prefer another one about life being a stream and we're all reflections...I forget exactly how that one went but I also liked that one. If I could remember it as well as some other useless things in my head I would have used that one.

Anyway, the point of this all is that by reading this whoever is reading it will get to see one facet of my personality. And that's the literary beast that stirs inside the chest of this mild mannered call centre worker. For my family all their perceptions will be coloured by knowing me when I was much younger. Nobody will actually know me in the same way that everyone else does. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing as there are some people out there who don't like me, hard as that may be to assimilate.

The second thing I was speaking of earlier is a quote from Babylon 5. "Imagine if life was fair. Then we'd deserve all the bad things that happen to us". I'm quite glad that life isn't fair.