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[ljgeoff]

I was reading something last night, and woke up with the thought: I am not an emotionally complicated person.

I like things that feel good, I don't like things that are painful, I'm not particularly ambitious but I will lead if no one else picks up the reigns, I like to get my own way but I can bend like a willow, it takes a lot to piss me off and I get over it rather quickly, a person can easily tell if I like them or not, and I've never really been good at deception.

I feel so ordinary and normal, and I worry that I'm dull. This is what it comes to: my writing has no pathos. Just normal people coping with what the world throws at them. It doesn't feel particularly deep or insightful.

That's what I woke up thinking about.

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[saxomofo.livejournal.com]

Maybe I am the dull one because I thought that was a pretty insightful thought to wake up thinking. (Possibly because I wake up in caveman mode and my thoughts are truly boring. Ung ung. Coffee? Food! Ung.)

[(Anonymous)]

You'd hope that there's a lot of pathos to normal people coping. After all, if being psychologically balanced is a minority position (which I sometimes suspect it is), it's not "normal", is it?

I prefer being a good person to being a genius artist.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

Well, I can tell you right off that being an emotionally complex person is not automatically a recipe for happiness.

[firecat]

There are a lot of great books about normal people coping with what the world throws at them.

[audreylucero.livejournal.com]

um...would you really *want* to be an emotionally complex person? Emotionally complex = HIGH MAINTENANCE. High maintenance is nothing to be proud of, in my opinion. No man is an island, but you're pretty self-contained.
That frees you up to think about/experience *higher* things, you know.

Life will throw dynamic, sometimes crappy, things your way all the time; why complicate things further by being emotionally crosswired?

Sounds to me like you have a good understanding of your current self and limitations--congratulations! I'd call you lucky, but I know that luck has NOTHING to do with it; you're introspective analytical nature has triumphed again, to help you understand yourself, therefore your environment!

Feeling dull happens to all of us. Your writing has no pathos? Then I suppose that *choice* little excerpt of impeccable vampirical nonsense you linked to must be the exact opposite, because it was *soaking* with Emo! *lol*

What's that age-old saying..."Write what you know"?
Don't belittle yourself by belittling your writing. It is good to keep a critical eye, but that statement of yours was just belittling, Miss Lisa.

*sniff*!

@-) (Cyclopean Smiley! Neat!)

Audrey