When the story finally comes to a close, and it will, oh it
will as everything does, the sadness will set in. The fear of being alone, of
feeling something totally new and different from all those years previous
devours you. One begins to live a past relationship in reverse. And then there was one.
Memories flow into your consciousness, starting from the
very inception of the split and continue and flow in reverse until you’ve
reached the start of the relationship. Someone once told me that in order to
heal from a breakup you need to return to the person you were before the
relationship. Impossible! Impossible I say! How can this be if every experience
better or worse shapes us? The only constructive path from here is to
understand that everything comes to an end, no matter how lively or wonderful,
eventually every living thing dies and returns to the earth.
The overall blog experience was a really interesting concept. Browsing through other blogs it seems that they’ve all connected in some way with similar themes making every blog connected on some level. Each blog now transcends a single voice and adds to the greater voice of our class, which I really enjoy. Overall everyone was writing about some kind of travel or a passing of time. I started my blog out with ideas of traveling and soon transcended that into the passing of time and the impermanence of living things. Living moment to moment.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem I encountered was with the concept itself; if bloggers were not writing very concrete material it was hard to compose off of their influence. Sometimes it would be a recurring cycle started by one person, which then spread to other blogs because of the nature of the experience and had the potential to create a series of very vague entries. I tried to stray away from this by sometimes incorporating only one line or so from said blog into mine and expanding the idea so that my own entry was a vague view of the original entry I was writing from.
Overall though it was a great experience and an interesting one. It brought into question just what exactly is a text and how are they created. The fact that now everyone’s own original works are no longer completely original but extremely influenced by other’s questions what is original creation. The same philosophy works in the grand scheme of all works in the world. Everything is influenced by someone or something but that does not necessarily mean that the work is not original. There is a fine line between plagiarism and originality.