If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
This statement requires some thought. It was on the top of the deck, begging to be used. Every time I looked at/picked up the deck it was there. What does it mean? Most of the other sayings are relatively easy to comment about, but this one is giving me some problems. How much of my life is spent being fictional? Real? Something else? And if that's not enough to ponder, what about others?How do I act differently? Are our leaders real or fictional? Does being fictional mean acting like a character in a cheap crime novel or literary masterpiece? Or both?
There are times when I contemplate my behaviors and wonder, was that real or fictional? Was that the real me, or not? When I am most passionate, animated and energized, is that the real or fictional me? Is it all real or all fictional?
Am I more real being fictional or more fictional being real?
All this is being written around 6 AM after a good night's sleep. Think what might have been written later after a glass of wine or two.
As for the answers to the questions, you're on your own. (But here is a hint: The answers are yes, no, maybe and it depends, and not in any order.) You can choose to ignore them. (Not at your own peril, btw.) You can choose to ponder any or all of them. You can choose to labor over finding answers. Whatever you do the choice is yours and it will lead to some consequence.
You might want to consider the consequence you want and then think your way back to the question that would best fit that consequence.
Have a great day! Be it real or fictional or a combination thereof.
Thanks to Richard Bach, Illusions, Delacorte Press, 1977.
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This has nothing to do with your post, but I dreamed about you last night. I was over some friends house and you were at that very house. Introductions were made and all I could think of is getting to your blog and telling you we met face to face.
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