Moving

We're told to write what we know, as if that's the most 'true' form of writing. As if our experiences, our lives, our actions, words, thoughts; - our 'self' can manifest itself as something more than adequate.

It's a load of shit. It's the reason why kids have no imagination these days. You tell someone they're the centre of their own universe and suddenly they don't have to worry about pirates and adventures and creating stories, telling stories, writing, reading, reading, Reading, READING. (writing)

"Tell me about yourself."
- I'm late twenties, I feel much younger, I feel much older, I look younger, I've never been overseas, I like the comfortable, I stick with what I know but am blessed with an infinite capacity and hunger to know more, I eat, I sleep, in my spare moments I save the world or at least pretend to, I wonder about invasions, I've almost finished Day of the Triffids and once again I find the book only starts to affect me when they're getting rescued, I like education but hate schools, I like young people but hate students, I want to write a book called 'Why I'm Not Teaching' because it's impossible to fight this system from within, I'm more and more scared of Kevin Rudd as time goes on, I'm late twenties and I like icecream with Milo and Lego (separate items - consider truncating or turning into flowchart or Powerpoint Presentation).

The second we write what we know we make ourselves vulnerable and, fuck, people might think of us differently. So we write a comfortable, sanitised version of ourselves, hiding all our fucked up thoughts, hiding our swear words. Live a little.