An Illusion Rant

Well Sexson told us it was a good idea to brainstorm our ideas on the blog, so here goes. (This will most likely not make sense to you, and probably not myself either at this time, but oh well!)

Illusion.

It has often been repeated, after I spoke, to someone near me, "What did he say?" As if I was speaking gibberish. And no one has listed these words more often than my mother.

I've often thought that between two people there is always two conversations going on; the one you are having, say about a book, and the other side of the conversation which could be about anything whatsoever your conversation partner wishes to be speaking about, perhaps rocks. You Both speak, you both hear what you wanted to here, and then you go about your day, not noticing that the discussion that took place happened in two very different understandings.

I've thought this since I was a child. I've often spoke to it with friends and heard "What did he say?"

But you do see this don't you? on lesser levels. You see this with adaptation of books into films where a moviegoer and a reader will discuss the same thing until the understanding arrives that you had neither the same message, nor near the same story.

You see this through the loss of translation, especially when a book has multiple translations. Something new here in this text, something different or deleted in the next. It is always different.

And this is how gossip starts, and spreads! It is very much like a game of telephone. And if you've never played the game I highly advise it.

Gossip has always been my favorite type of story. And mind you I abhor Gossip! I loathe it as much as perhaps the most of anything. But it is here and there and it will never die. But gossip is the average persons time to tell a story, and fabricate it. It is especially emotion heightening (of all types) to see the spread of Gossip in Social Circles, to watch the mayhem swell as the majestic fall into place over the illusion of what actually happened.

The timid minds. The over-sensitive. The analytical. The Synthetical. The hypocritical. The flirtatious oh and the Anti-Flirt! The ostentatious. The Narcissistic! The Neurotic! The emotional. The heartfelt! the Theologian! The Atheist. The Asshole. The Bitch. The addict. The Sloth. The Looser. The cooler(?)

They all put their life experience into the retelling of the tale!

People bicker, fight, find love, find jealousy, stifle sniffles, spill tears, spring traps, and it as all because of an illusion!

"All I know is what the words know and the dead things!"

Let us take another direction.

If everyone believes something does that not make it so?

It is four O'clock. Everyone knew that. And everyone runs off of it. If I'm to be to work at four and I do not go because I know that the clock has absolutely no control other than what we give it I will still be fired. Yet if everyone decided the clocks meant nothing and ignored them, their would not be time?!

If your clock says 3:15 and your neighbors 3:10 what time is it?

"Check your phone idiot, that's the right time."

It is mad to try and understand it! The logical choice is simply to ignore it.

Yet how many people say they don't live their life by dreams?