Alex wrote:
No, see... Nate and I, we have issues that put other people's issues to shame. We have issues that we cannot, even in the Flames of Doom, so much as contemplate sharing with others, because it would blow all of your minds into a fine, sugary powder. Yes, a sugary powder. That's how absurd our issues are.
Is it maybe a monument to just how screwed up everyone is that we're comparing our issues? I mean, most of us know very little of each other on a personal level (or, at least, I would imagine so). Isn't a comparison of alleged serious issues just a bit absurd? Besides, it's all perception anyway. You're gay and being in the closet might be your personal version of Hell (if there is such a place). But for all you know, I'm a soldier on some foreign battlefield, forced to shoot at children because they're running at me with bombs strapped to them. Is one necessarily worse than the other? Again, all a matter of perception, my friend. We're all fucked in one way or another. We constantly think in terms of normalcy and how close or far we are to some ideal of it. If anything, in this world, the more out there you think you are, the more like everyone else you tend to be. In this grand push to be more and more individualistic, we just end up more and more like the perceived norm. As Sage is so fond of saying, it iz like a paradox. All issues, for all their imagined complexities, are simple. We complicate them only in attempting with what crude knowledge we humans are privy to understanding them. So, you see, you might, in fact, be the most 'normal' person on this site.
Perception is, after all, everything.
That's my deep thought of the day. Expect nothing but manic ravings from this point forward.
Time for me to go water my Mog-wai...
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