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Current Talk '03 II / Re:Horrible...just horrible
« on: December 16, 2003, 11:20:58 PM »If you are referring to MY portion of the post.....it's exactly the way I wrote it....I didn't edit any part of it after it was posted.....and I'm sure nothing is missing.
Oops, my bad. Apparently I'm as blind as a bat this afternoon.
The part I didn't see again was this:
Well, no, of course it's not FAIR.....but isn't it exactly what we do in real life? We fall all over ourselves making excuses for the people we love and care about.....but there's NO excuse for people we don't like, is there?
To which I was and now am going to respond that that isn't necessarily always the case.
Chalk it up to the fact that I minored in Eng. Lit. in college. Chalk it up to the fact that I've been fascinated with pyschology from an early age (I've taken so many classes just for my own edification that I could probably pass the test to become a certified therapist (I've already completed the therapy requirement. )) Or chalk it up to the fact that when I was young I had a situation in my life that required me to try to come up with a rational understanding of it or otherwise surrender my sanity (hence the fascination with psychology and the therapy)· But I tend to dig for the deeper motivations in both the fictional characters and in the real life people I encounter - particularly when it comes to characters/people I don't particularly like. Maybe that makes me different from the average DS viewer. I don't know. But it's definitely the way I am - and it's also one of the reasons I enjpy DS so much. All the characters have so much stuff bubbling under the suface that causes them to act and react the way they do, and it's just so interesting to watch them dealing with it all. Often times I think the subtext of what goes on in the scenes is much more interesting that what we're seeing on the surface...