28 August 2009
The mainstream.
I think there was a time in my life when I decided I didn’t like the mainstream world a lot and somehow successfully managed to block it out. I never thought I would need to come back an reacquaint myself and went on about my business quite happily.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about communication, and well practicing it and finding I must reacquaint myself with this so called “mainstream” or whatever it may be. I think it’s kind of life learning a language. It’s much easier to learn it from a young age, grow up with it than to come at it from an older age.
Communication is so dense. Which I like. I think I thought it would be easy enough to stay in my bubble. But one must understand firstly how the world works. And that involves knowing a lot of stuff, and I suppose experiencing lots of stuff. That could take a whole lifetime.
I feel so boring these days. I spend so much time reading. But it’s maker me faster. And that brings me happiness.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:45 am
I have embraced my mainstreamness and life has been peachy ever since. Mostly.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Jem, I have a cousin, Kate Jennings. She is a poet/novelist and her brother founded Mambo. She lived a life on the edge for so long - feminist activist, set up first womens shelter in Aust, wrote poetry, depression, suicidal, now lives in New York with several published poetry books and novels. Any way, she lived a pretty radical life for so long … In an essay she wrote when she turned 40 she said, “Twenty years of careering through life like a horse loose in traffic. Enough is enough…..Eventually I confronted my problems. For the first time in my life I developed a healthy respect for the middle ground. I had prided myself on living on the edge and despised those who lead more temperate lives, failing to understand that such lives are not so easily achieved. I am more tolerant now. I have come in from the cold.” I was reminded of her when I read your post. You’d proabbly like her writing. She has been a journo and speech writer too.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I think I would like her. She writes what I wanted to say much more eloquently and coherently. I think I would like to read her book. Do you have it? Interesting that she’s a journo, it forces you to face the world.