Let's just jump in...
If you know me, which most of you do, you know that i have an affinity for the observance of humanity, and their reactions to daily, if not, momentary events. I could sit in a busy park and watch people for hours. Waiting at airports is not a big deal to me. Sometimes i think i may have missed my destiny career path...perhaps i should've been an anthropologist. It fascinates me.
The subjects of which i write are unseceded from that praxis.
The reactions associated with the stimulus of scripting my thoughts is intrinsically interesting. Positive or negative. Abrasive or polished.
The other day i wrote about a question that has nagged my soul for years. The return volleys were entrancing. Not merely of the intimate matter, but of my tendency to observe. As one commenter put it..."Perception is reality." While that in itself is not true, only truth is reality, i know exactly what they meant within the context and i thought it was a very interesting point of view in the paradigm of human response. This particular post is not intended to focus on the subject matter of that entry, but merely about writing in general.
Topics that i consider mundane or at the very most innocuous, if not conveyed clearly, can evoke polar opposites of emotions within readers. The words acting not unlike a magnet...at one angle attracting and connective, and the other repelling and devisive.
Unless one is very adept at conveying exactly what is within the mind, through the pen, to the paper...there is a certainty in loss of translation. The surveilling of just how that wind blows through the trees, and their respective rustlings is enigmatic to say the least.
The difficult challenge of a writer such as myself is to get you the reader identify with the sensory... to see what i'm seeing, hear what i'm hearing, smell what i'm smelling, taste what i'm tasting, touch what i'm touching, or the greater struggle... traversing the deeper chasm of feel what i'm feeling. In some respects, i think i accomplish that by and large (and if you ever care to look up that particular phrase, and the ancient nautical use of it is fascinating, and applicable). Yet sometimes, when i fail in that...the results are capacious.
That the wind causes some trees to sing soft, sweet melodies...and others to rasp naked branches.
And that, dear friend, i find most curious indeed.
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The difficult challenge of a writer such as myself is to get you the reader identify with the sensory... to see what i'm seeing, hear what i'm hearing, smell what i'm smelling, taste what i'm tasting, touch what i'm touching, or the greater struggle... traversing the deeper chasm of feel what i'm feeling.
Now that is the challenge and you meet it very well - most of the time. Preconceived ideas often cloud the reader's mind, which is no fault of the writer. It is true in "people watching" too - as in Doc's recent post. Some might see a guy stealing a bottle of wine while others might see a guy returning a bottle of wine. I find it fascinating too.
Well... I DO believe that "perception is reality," with the caveat that some people's reality is a lil less real than other people's. The trick, of course, is figuring out who's less real than who... ;-)
"with the caveat that some people's reality is a lil less real than other people's."
Which would, in fact, make truth extremely relative, which, in my world view, is not. As my cousin eloquently pointed out one time..."There's always two sides to the coin...and then there's the truth." I love that.
But, yeah, i totally hear ya...and yes...that is the trick...if not pure magic.
Admittedly, I have read this post several times to get an understanding of what I think you are trying to convey. The post you were speaking of that has nagged my soul for years I read several times also. I didn't respond to that one for spiritual reasons. Not knowing someone's heart in matters sometimes calls for silence. Which is a very difficult concept for me. But, it's just like you said topics can evoke emotions. Comments to those topics can too, intended or not.
Words are powerful. They can call down curses, as well as ask for blessings. We should choose our words carefully with great consideration. I think that you do this.
But, now I'll know to consider your posts even more meticulously. Is this post meant to convey a thought or draw out a reaction from me that can be observed by the anthropologist? :^)
Gosh Piper, now I'm paranoid and raspy!!! LOL
:-)
"And that's all I have to say about thayat."
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