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"My Message"

I sit here feeling strained, knowing I have the ambition to do something creative of epic proportions. I want to write, I love writing but most of all I want to make a difference with my writing. I want to write something that will live on after I have died for people to remember me by; a timeless classic novel or a book of enduring usefulness.

The though of dying and being forgotten suffocates me. Some people are quite content to live out their life in relative happiness, die and then be forgotten. I want to leave behind me a legacy. I want people to read something I have written and for it to speak volumes to them. I want to make a difference to the lives of people; but I do not know how.

I sit here at my computer most nights with a blank word document open, wanting to begin my masterpiece. Longing for my fingers to spring to life and begin tapping down the jumbles mass of emotion, creativity and vitriol that is my thumping unconscious in a legible fashion. I keep a pen and paper by my bedside in case a dream clarifies what it is I am meant to write about. What I am meant to bring to the world that I feel is going to be so important. If I were a spiritual person I would probably say it was my destiny to convey this message that sits encoded in the back of my mind, always a few inches from the tip of my proverbial tongue; but so far it hasn’t made itself clear enough to scribble down on paper.

My jumbled assortment of poetry, discourses and stories each hold an element of what I am trying to reveal, but the big picture is far from complete. It pains me to think that I may never discover what it is I feel the need to express so badly. I have tried philosophising, stabbing in the dark at huge issues such as the meaning of life or the size of the universe. Issues I feel uncouth of someone of my education to even ponder with any degree of seriousness. But I will continue to explore every issue under the sun until I probe deep enough into my psyche to uncover the message I have to offer the world. Something I need to uncover for the sake of my ever failing sanity.

Touchy me for five dollah

I wasn't spoiling for a fight, and no I suffer not a jot from the absence of that blinkered tool.

It was a genuine question, hence the "Ok" with no sarcasm or baiting.
Jesus you people are touchy

I'll let him off then because I have a really whitty retort brewing... *looks blank*

Unlike Bell, I know when I'm beaten in an argument.

It's because your name sounds a bit like Paradise (ie Stranger in Paradise) Goatboy's just suffering "Belldandy-bashing" withdrawl symptoms. ;D

as much as I love random pointless arguments Goaty, I really cannot be bothered to pursue this.

So by quoting the end of my post and adding:
"You make an elequent point then slap a cringe-worthy outdated social stereotype on the end. Tut tut.", you were actually referring to your own post several back and not the comment from myself that you repeated in your response?

Ok

Goatboy wrote:

> So if you'd please explain how pointing out that somebody berating
> another user for not being intelligent and being unable to understand
> your art by calling them "fag" is ironic could
> possibly be an "outdated social stereotype"?

and as for this, I was simply retorting to Cubists "you're not clever just because you use big words that I dont understand" by claiming that it was his fault for not understanding the words and also that he didnt understand the art of poetry.

Yes I got unnecassarily angry and no, I shouldn't have used a critical slur like "fag". All sorted out? I'd like to think so.

*feels stupid*

The outdated social stereotype I was refering to was myself calling cubist a fag when I am "preening about being an artist", the stereotype being that all artists, especially poets, are gay - thus being a contradiction. If this isn't what you were refering to then I appoligise but it very much seemed that way.

Paradox: wrote:
> You make an elequent point then slap a cringe-worthy outdated social
> stereotype on the end. Tut tut.
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How does "somebody preening about wanting to be an artist" qualify as an outdated social stereotype?
You spend a while having a go at somebody for not being intelligent enough to understand your "art", then resort to using offensive name calling.
What on earth is "outdated social stereotyping" about pointing out the inconsistency of that?
The reason I ask, y'see, is that it appears to me that you slap a few words together to sound highbrow yet have failed to understand your own witticism - but I could be wrong and am willing to be shown why.

So if you'd please explain how pointing out that somebody berating another user for not being intelligent and being unable to understand your art by calling them "fag" is ironic could possibly be an "outdated social stereotype"?

Oh, and it's "eloquent".

I think we need a story forum.

The only active posts in here are about stories. At the moment.