Gania

[st_masey]

If you want to get to know me, read this passage from Dostoevsky's "The Idiot".
I spend a lot of time reflecting on which characters in literature remind me of real people, but they seldom seem as accurate as this diagnosis of myself.  Enjoy.  (Don't worry, it's short.)

There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family,

Comments

[ducttapefairy]

Well ... That's what makes you human. ::shrug::

hello, Gania

[wilbur_h_cobb]

I'm fine with being of the happier category.

RE: Gania

[axisdenied1984]

I know the feeling. Somtimes I wish I could be simple, standard and ignorant, but what fun would that be? Without the great downfalls of those that realise they even occur, the uplifting moments would not seem as sweet. Whenever I feel tormented, I try to think of that.

Whereas this is a great insight on the differences between those who think and those who merely exist, it does not do much to describe you. Except, to represent that you are of the thinking few.

<3 Lauren

PS: I never update my LiveJournal, so heed not to its useless rambles.

[aspiringhobo]

Was that passage very strange for you to read at first.

If it is of any comfort, perhaps you do have talent, or will have talent at some time in the future. I suspect genius is somewhat less likely to come as a gift of nature and perhaps more often won through work and thought and trouble and life.

[nosferatu_girl]

I must admit that I haven't really gotten to know you throughout the time I've had you on my live journal friends' list, much to my shame. However, I suspect that, should you fit into either category above, it would have to be the latter. As Dostoevsky said; "To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving."

That you're having such misgivings goes to show, as far as I am concerned, that you are not, in fact, simple, far from it.

As an aside - I wonder where I would fit into Dostoevsky's view of things. I am not very creative, which I am all too aware of, nor am I clever. I suppose there is a possible center of the road type that has no redeeming qualities to save them from conforming to the mass mindset. Heh.