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Letara
Mar 5, 2006, 05:51 PM
This is a creative work I just decided to start. The name says everything. I started to write and didn't stop until my head was empty. Why into the LHH? If you have the courage to read trough this, you'll see why. It's self-therapy. None of what I wrote down was planned. I took nearly an hour and I did not stop for longer than 2 minutes.
Comment if you want. Do you own brainstorming if you want (believe me, it helps... I almost cried during this one). This version has not been changed in any way, with exception of some grammatical mistakes which sneaked in and which surely still are all over the place.
Maybe I'll continue telling my story, I most probably will, as this is the biggest issue I got in my head and I need to get rid of it.
And of course, there is no structure whatsoever in it. Sometimes the theme-skipping seems rational, sometimes it makes no sense at all. Well, there's a reason why I called this "Brainstorm".
I hope you enjoy, hope you find interesting ideas, hope you understand and, most important, hope you have a really nice day. :)

...
oh yeah, the text...



I think it's time to install FF7 again. Don't you think? Oh well, don't mind. I do not really care what you think about that. But I haven't played it for nearly a year now and I've just deinstalled all the other games I have, I had, on my harddrive (with the little exception of "Capoeira Fighter 2 Demo") so this would be a good moment to bring back Final Fantasy to life. Maybe even FF 8 which I never had the time to understand thoroughly.
Wonder why I'm telling you this? Well, to be precise, I'm not telling you anything. Just writing something down and you are reading it. But hey, don't stop. I do, in fact, wish this text to be read by someone, anyone. Don't care who, don't care why and I certainly do not care about what your right hand was doing just five minutes ago. Did you know that Asia Carrera has a IQ of 155 and is a member of the 'Mensa', a group of highly gifted people? Do you even know who Asia Carrera is? Do you even have an idea of what I was hinting at when I wrote about what your right hand was doing 5 minutes (10 minutes by now) before?
If you don't, it's too late to think it over now, because now I want to write about intelligence and if you plan to keep reading this text, you won't be able to think about it anymore, unless you are a woman (who can, as some scientists claim, concentrate on multiple tasks at a time).
See, what I was trying to say, was that the 'Intelligence Quotient' does not really state much about a person, if you ask me. Maybe I'm just using that as a excuse for my lamentably low IQ, which is higher than the IQ of aprox. 95% of the people on this earth, but still isn't high enough to enter the Mensa, which would have been a great opportunity to meet Asia Carrera. And... talk to her and things.
Why, you will be asking yourself, does the IQ not state much about humans? Well, mainly because I don't think that humans can, or should be, judged by their intelligence, but also because I am one of the persons who claim that there are a multitude of different intelligences, the social intelligence for instance, but also the ethical, the mathematical, the logical and so on. Ever heard of a question which asks you about a moral issue? No? That's because they do not exist.
It's stupid. It's like comparing your wieners length, with women allowed in the game. It just makes no sense. Women could indeed make the thing a bit more interesting, but still, their participation does not make much sense.
Can you see that ranking? 1. Ralph
2. Peter
3. Lars
4. Michael
5. TJ
6. Johanna, Charis, Elea, Elita, Line, Medina, Marthe, Carsta, Cheyenne, Rika, Amelia, Benita…
What the fuck?
And anyways, what the hell is going on in women’s heads? Back in the time when everything in my little mushy world was bright and good, I thought I could understand them, now I have to admit that I do not even understand men. See, this hilariously stupid discussion has arisen again: Why do women always fuck with the assholes, the pricks, the jocks, and why, why lord, don't they want to fuck with me? Is it because I am a honest and sensible guy? Do women need stupid jocks to be happy? Is all they want good sex?
And now, after all these questions, I have to inform you that they are all obsolete. Unimportant. You want something to fuck? Fuck all those questions.
The only question that seems important to me: If all those 'honest and sensible' guys out there (in harsh contrast to women’s claims, there seem to be billions of them out there) in fact want nothing but a good fuck, which, I sometimes fear, is the case, then what makes them any better than the assholes who beat them up after school?
Or, to formulate the question in a less harsh, more philosophical way: If men act like they act with the final aim to impress women... then how can their actions ever be rated in a ethical way? What good is any morality if our actions only seem to be ethical and in fact are simple 10th grade biology?
And: Is there another way? Between all the sex and the fuck's (I apologize for my harsh language in the last part of the text... but I thought you should get a uncensored impression of my thoughts), is there place for real feelings?
Do you know the word altruism? It means losing your ego. Not concentrating on yourself, but truly and thoroughly wanting others to succeed.
What do you think about this: True love cannot be felt, as long as you are still concentrated on your ego. True altruism is the way to love. Or maybe the other way around. Who cares anyway?
I have been trying to find it out all my life. You should know that I can't be pigeonholed in a certain group. I'm both, the sensible guy and the jock. I built up the self esteem the size of a battlecruiser during the last years. I'm not exactly big, but I have a very athletic figure, strong arms and legs, even a sixpack and shoulders like a bull. Not the kind of person one should be messing around with, as I can kick you into the face faster than you would ever expect, until the moment you lay on the ground. Okay, I have never kicked anybody in the face, because concerning that, the sensible guy stands in my way. Yeah, I try to tell people the truth and people trust me, they say I am the 'nicest guy on earth', 'more social than humans should be' 'too passive'.
Passive? Okay, I don't talk when I don't have anything to say but I am highly respected. I am one of the two persons on this earth who are able to train the kids from my rowing club (I am the president of the club). Do you think I could do that, if I was passive? My tongue is my sword. I can talk people down nearly as fast as I could beat them down, and I do not mean I humiliate them. I simply tell them how wrong their behaviour is, how stupid, how self-humiliating, how useless, how predictable.
Coming back to the point that, in fact, I am very attractive for most women. Still, I am extremely unsuccessful. I currently am stuck in a very tricky situation concerning a girl I met nearly a year ago, a girl I didn't really like in the beginning but found her behaviour to be very interesting, for reasons I don't want to mention here. Let's just say that I didn't believe that the way she acted was the way she truly feels inside. It seemed too surreal, too cool, too hardboiled.
So I got to know her a little better. We ended together on the sofa of my best friend, both totally wasted (no, no sex, we simply slept wrapped into the same blanket) after a birthday party of a friend of hers.
We didn't make a big deal out of that, the next morning I brought her home said goodbye and drank at least 4 litres of water to revive my body.
We became good friends, and guess what: She really is a nice person, with a lot of uncertainty in her heart, but also with a good portion of respect and love. Booya, I was right. And this is the part where it struck me. I fell in love with my new best girlfriend. It was a very cold night, we slept under the plain sky and again, all we had was a blanket to share. And as I allowed her under my blanket and watched her fall asleep in my arms, knowing that we would both be freezing if we did not have each other... do I need to say more?
I did not sleep for a second that night.

.... End of Part 1 .…

krikie
Mar 5, 2006, 06:02 PM
I like it. I definatley think you should keep writing.

And it sounds like you're getting a lot of things off your chest that you really needed to - and that's great.

Plus, naturally being a girl, I'm curious as to what happens next ;D

Beatrix the Goddess
Mar 6, 2006, 05:32 PM
Keep at it, Letara, if its helping you. I think its brave of you to write down exactly what you're thhinking & actually show it to people, but its really interesting.

I'm not sure if you already knew this - but what you're doing is actually a method of psychoanalytic therapy called free association. The idea is to do what you're doing - say exactly what you're thinking with no cognitive appraisal in between thinking it & saying it. The idea being that it eventually shuts off your conscious mind & provides a path to the unconscious, & that eventually - no matter what you start free associating with (like you started with FFVII), eventually you'll get to the underlying issues that are significant to you - which is exactly what you've done. I think typing, rather than speaking, probably introduced some degree of cognitive appraisal, but still, its a good thing to do, so post as much as you like, we're all interested :)

Letara
Mar 6, 2006, 10:42 PM
Thanks a lot for the positive feedback. I am not a studied psychologist but I have a fair knowledge about the issue and of course I wasn't surprised when the text endet in the problem with my best girlfriend.
But apart from that, I was surprised to see how randomly and spontaneous the thoughts came out of my head once I had started to write, and it sure was a interesting experience for me.
I will continue this as soon as I feel I'm ready for another brainstorming, as I won't be able to write a text like that one when I actually try to write it. The thoughts will surely come in time. I carry my notebook with me, so I can write down the spontaneous thoughts I sometimes have and maybe I'll just unite them to one text. Or maybe I'll write it in one piece, like this one.
In the meantime I'll probably work on refining this text. I hope to be able to create a somehow structured story out of it.
Again, thanks for reading that weird piece of... me. (:

Vivi
Mar 7, 2006, 07:03 PM
Yeah you should keep with it. I'm gonna try this too with how I feel. I used to write songs a while back. I stopped for about a year or so, but I've started again recently.

I quite enjoyed reading your writing Letara. I think it's cool how you talk about your feelings and just generally raise some good points. And if it's having a therapy-like effect on you, that's good.

Kat
Mar 7, 2006, 07:04 PM
Hehe, I do this too from time to time. It really does help! When I run out of things to say I feel... clean, almost. o_O But anyway, keep going! Keep going! :D I'm curious toooo! :P

Mig
Mar 7, 2006, 09:20 PM
I'd do it, but I'm sort of afraid what'll come out in the end. :P There's all sorts of guilt and stuff I don't want to bring to the surface again. ^^;;

Anyways, I enjoyed reading that. Keep at it! ^__^

Ozma Omega
Mar 8, 2006, 02:25 PM
Hope you keep writing, Letara, this is brilliant stuff. :D

I have to say, your way of thinking reminds me very much of my own (minus the athletic part, I don't have much to write about there :P ), and I'm really interested in seeing where you go with it. And you're absolutely right about it being self-therapy, so it fits in the LHH just fine.

Great stuff, keep going. :)

Mikayla
Mar 8, 2006, 03:36 PM
Indeed, keep writing. It is very interesting what people put up like this.

I think I tried it once when I was about 11, I don't really remember what I said, but I remember ending up just scketching out an Animal cracker on the paper when I saw it when I was tilting my head, laying it on the paper.

Keep going.

Letara
Mar 25, 2006, 02:58 PM
321262224 (5:41 PM) :
hello
[saCk].DrLetara (5:41 PM) :
...
[saCk].DrLetara (5:41 PM) :
hi
alina (5:42 PM) :
how are you?
[saCk].DrLetara (5:42 PM) :
im fine, thanks... how are you?
alina (5:43 PM) :
very very good
[saCk].DrLetara (5:45 PM) :
heh, great ^^
why did you contact me?
[saCk].DrLetara (5:47 PM) :
….
I am now going to put you on my ignore-list... just to let you know... bye and keep having a nice day


Don't we all love ICQ? I can tell you guys and girls, I love it. Okay, truth is I haven't used it in ages. I have no reason or time to chat with the people I used to chat with in past times, and those who still care about me usually contact me with skype.
But still. I am a ICQ user for years and years now, a real oldby, I created my first account with my older brother when ICQ was barely one or two years old, my current account is now approximately 5 years old. Did you know that ICQ was created 1996, programmed by four Israeli students named Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser und Amnon Amir and released by their corporation 'Mirabilis'? Which was bought by AOL two years later.
Anyway, you know now. But the reason why I love ICQ are all those people who contact me without having a clue about who I am. Okay, 95% of them are Spam Bots but in some cases you indeed encounter real persons. Like in the case showed above. This particular person was either very young, retarded, or extremely busy. I did indeed put her on my Ignore-List. I know that seems to be a harsh thing to do to a little (or retarded) girl but I have no space in my contact list for too many random people.
I know some users who claim to have 200 and more contacts. And of course they only chat with 5-6 of them. So what's this all about? ICQ contacts a matter of prestige? I have 21 contacts on my list and I chat with maybe 4 of them. But there are also other interesting people on my list: 'Admiral' for example is somebody I met on 'GalaxyWars' a online game for retarded fucktards with no life. And me being in the middle of it. Some of the players there woke up in the middle of the night (3-4 o'clock in the morning) to fly attacks against your planet. This way you had no chance to evade their attack unless you woke up at that time too, started your computer and organized your defences. I never got up in the middle of the night, so I had no chance, besides, I do have a life even if some people do not believe me this fact. Well, 'Admiral' was a ally but nonetheless he was a retarded fucktard too. In some way…
And there is 'Sunshine'. She is 27 years old and a real nice person. She lives in the same city I live in, but I never met her in person. In fact, our only communication took place in Counter Strike games while we were virtually shooting each other. She kicked ass by the way. I never had much of a chance against her and her Desert Eagle. If a woman with a DE isn’t sexy, then there is nothing sexy on this planet.
Or 'Hannemann'. He is a highly intelligent 16 year old guy who once asked me for help, because his friend was threatening to kill himself. I gave him tips telling him which was the best way to talk to him and said he should visit a professional. His friend is still alive today. Not sure if he has solved all his problems, but he is still alive. And Hannemann and I still talk, though never in ICQ. Instead we meet in a forum called 'Burningboard'. A place full of hackers, pseudo hackers and people like me who simply enjoy relations to people with good possibilities to get movies before they start in theatres.
'Jeica' is also there. Her real name is Jessica. And we have never chatted trough ICQ. She was in my school, even in my class, but we never were good friends. In the end of school time there was a party at a lake and we talked for hours and realised that we had a lot in common and she told me her number. I memorized it, without writing it down anywhere. I don't know why I am able to do that, as normally I am pretty bad with numbers, but hey, it's unimportant anyway.
'sputnic' is one of my oldest friends, but we haven't talked or met in ages. Last time I saw her was during her birthday. I remember that I wrote her a poem. One of the best I ever wrote. I wish I could show it to you, but it is in german so you wouldn't be able to appreciate it. But it ends with these words:
"Sometimes looking into the past
feels like looking into the future
and so I see that friendship,
even if our life’s run on separated roads,
lasts forever
if only you have the strength to remember the good times we shared."
Or something like that. Poetical isn't it? Well I'm happy I wrote that lines. They help me to accept the fact that we can't meet anymore (she's visiting University and I have to work in a hospital).

…But anyway, who the hell is ‘BluB’?

Kat
Mar 26, 2006, 02:45 AM
That made me wanna get ICQ... :P

Don't feel bad! I kind of get tired like that too. What can you do. Nice poem by the way. ^_^

...And grrr! What about the giiirl? XD

seph
Mar 27, 2006, 03:39 PM
Now ill be the first to tell you when I see posts like these I usualy pay them no heed. But when I saw Letara posting it, I hadto check it out. I came, I saw, I was amazed. Keep writing dude, im enjoying this. Maybe you could write a book and call it....
"Mind my words"
chapter 1: Brainstorm

I dont know man, could be a hot seller. :)