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| Come away, oh human child, to the waters and the wild, with a fairy hand-in-hand... |
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5/13/2008 5:35 pm
Last Read:
5/16/2008 4:18 pm
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Once upon a time, we all lived in a world of imagination...and such a magical place it was, too!!! Filled with hopes and fears personified, little miniature morality plays where good always triumphed over evil, and where the lines between the two were clear and unambiguous. These would be the heros and villains who populate our imaginings.
But the really interesting character was usually the protagonist--that person who has some mix of both desirable and not-so-desirable qualities and who is, then, exposed to any number of moral dilemmas which force the person to reveal his or her nature.
Trying to build an imaginary world over which I have complete control could be a wonderfully enjoyable and distracting exercise, I think.
I'm going to give it a go, anyway. As a starting point, I have in mind a chat friend of mine as one of the main characters. (Bear in mind, I'll use some of what I know of her as a jumping off point, but I plan to fill in the rest as I will--this is MY imaginary world, after all).
Anyway, getting back to this friend, she's bright, attractive, desirable, and devoted to her husband [note to self: demonstrating these things both through her actions and through reactions of other characters would be better than listing them], even while she recognizes that no one person can meet ALL of the needs of another. By that, I don't mean that she has been unfaithful--she hasn't been--but she HAS come to realize that she made the mistake--or rather decision-- over the course of her marriage to give up a great deal of herself in order to give her husband the life she thought he wanted and to give her children a start in the life which she hoped would bring them joy. Along the way, she gave much, for she had much to give. As her children left home and started families of their own, and as her husband retired and became increasingly absorbed in his own interests, she wondered, idly, on the nights that she was alone, whether she could have given less, stayed more herself, while still having the life she had sketched out in her youth. She doesn't really regret the past--she just wonders, from time to time, what would have happened if she'd have pursued other dreams. But she is resourceful by nature, and she doesn't wonder long, for she is good at interacting with others, and she still considers the world to be full of wonder. Recently, she has gotten involved in a singing troupe, for example, and that has reawakened some of the person that she used to be, though you can never step in the same river twice, as her philosophy prof was fond of saying.
She's having a rough time of it these days. Up until recently, she had led a charmed life by her own account (though I hasten to add that she is one of those people who always seems to put a good face on even her adversities--both a strength and a weakness, I think.) Recently, she has had to cope with the death of her father and the imminent death of her mother. As she would be one of the first to admit, it's something that most of us have had to go through if we've lived long enough, and in that way she is in no way remarkable, but times like these that make us question somewhat the assumptions by which we have lived our lives.
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5/13/2008 6:08 pm |
I anticipate the next chapter with bated breath.... well rounded protagonist for starters.....
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345 posts 5/15/2008 2:06 pm |
Sounds good, Chris. Some of it sounds familiar. There is probably a lot of universality in it. I love the saying "you can never step in the same river twice".
GaPeach
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