More self-indulgent crap!

[tragic_tea]

"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."-William Ralph Inge

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[drumultima]

That's actually really interesting o.o I know exctly what you mean.

[tragic_tea]

Woo!

[spellbinder87]

well, i guess it makes me a weirdo... but i tell my life story as it is... it was one fucking thing after another.

but i have encountered the phenomena yo mention, i've met people outside French Woods, and they talk about how cool they thought i was... and i'm sitting there thinking wasen't i everybody's but-boy at camp?

it just goes to show how time can effect our view of it.

[tragic_tea]

No problem! Thanks doll!

[fiantha]

Wow. That is really insightful, and right now it's incredibly potent for me. I'm coming up on my half-way, the point where I'll have had epilepsy for exactly half my life, and I'm trying to resist the morbid temptation to pinpoint the exact date of "as of today, half my life sucked and half didn't" which I know isn't true, since I was pretty shy and lonely even as a really little, non-epileptic child, and I've often been happy as an epileptic young woman. But memory wants exact dates, and it wants clear definitions of "good times" and "bad times", and it will make them up if it has to. It also offers hope- if you were happy at high school, if I was happy before the seizures, than there is a definite way to regain happiness- just return to the way things were, and it will all be better. That's the real lie we are telling- we are saying to ourselves that we know the formula for happiness, because we once followed it. Now I'm having an existential crisis! Sorry to babble in your journal like this.
--Debbolina

[tragic_tea]

Awww Debbie, no need to apologize. I'm glad you enjoy my rambling. You worded it perfectly "That's the real lie we are telling- we are saying to ourselves that we know the formula for happiness, because we once followed it." Darling you are amazing and I miss you already!

[tragic_tea]

Hahaha, yes Johnny Thunders was not the greatest mind of his generation. But he was pretty fantastic! I do not know nearly close to "all" in fact the more I think the more I realize I know nothing at all. Thank you though!