The more I read blogs and peoples thoughts, the more I throw up in my mouth. Dont get me wrong, there are PLENTY of brilliant, refreshing, should-be-published little thinkers out here in blog world but there are equally as many regurgitated, bleeding cliches crying for the same attention they receive every time someone graces it with thought. Just stop. Please.
I was going to write about stupid people. And fortunately, this falls right in line with that. I was going to focus on this past weekends events, with the hole 'rapture, worlds coming to an end and 300 million believers will ascend into the heavens while the rest of us sinful bastards deal with earth quakes and famine for years.'... yeah, that... I guess I wasn't in the loop of crazy when this story came out because when I did catch wind of it, it was Saturday and apparently I had less than 3 hours to live. Was I alarmed? Fuck no. But I was worried about the insanity some poor senile old man has to endure to concoct that sort of hysteria and even more worried about the flocks of people who would most certainly kill him after they realize he had actually no clue what the fuck he was talking about. When some people were asked what they thought about the failed prophecy, they said, and I quote, " I just dont understand it..." ... really? You dont understand people didn't start floating to the sky while simultaneously, the entire earth fell apart? You didn't understand that any literal interpretation out of every religious text tends to, if not ALWAYS is completely fucking insane? It didn't cross your mind that entire scenario seemed like a god damn low-production-straight-to-dvd movie?! I mean, come on people. What the FFFUCK... But- because I've found something else to ignite my ranting, I feel that I've said enough on that waste of news. Instead, I want to go back and dissect the abundance of mouth feeding writers out there.
From one writer to another, lets level with each other, okay? You know when you're writing something and all of a sudden you stumble across a thought that you KNOW has been wrote about before right? And usually you sit there, watching the cursor blink, thinking to yourself "hmm. how can I make that sound different", right?... You're with me right? No? You're not? Whats that? Oh, you like to write shit thats been beat to death, thats been raped by every bad attempt at writing? Really? Well let me break this down a little more...
If I were to sit here and dump my heart on this page and say
'She didn't understand me.
And even though I thought I understood her,
she made sure to keep me wondering.
To keep me searching, fumbling through
constant questions on where her heart is and
where her mind is
and if I'm on it.
But at the end of the day,
all I want to say to her is
roses are red
violets are blue
and I dont know colors
but I know I love you....'
... did that make you vomit a little? Just a little? And did the impulse start around the time I wrote something you've seen in EVERY Halmark card, in every boring highschool lit class, in every twisted, juvenile limerick about love??
This was a horrible example but its still valid. Everything I wrote, however fictional it was, became completely bla the second I interjected 'roses are red, violets are blue'. My message disappeared. The meaning vanished. The only thing that remained in the readers mind is that desperate, starving cliche.
Now, most people out there have the common decency to not go that low. Thank god. But I've reached a point in my maturity and/or writing familiarity to catch onto insights that are so obviously hammy down. Some shit you grabbed off of an after school special or Oprah. And we've all heard that shit. And it doesn't help perpetuate... well.. anything... ever?! It just doesn't. Its like when I'm having an issue and someone says to me,
"Well, you know that theres always tomorrow. Tomorrows a new day. And you live and you learn."
And then I slap them in the fucking face for their own good. Really. You could have said " I like hot dogs and I sleep with a fan on" and I would have appreciated that more than telling me something I already know, something thats fucking common sense, and been said to everyone, in that same damn way.
So instead of coming off like I'm extremely pissed when I'm really just aggravated with these mindless, no direction insights, I'm just going to leave this by saying one last thing and thats it:
I've done some stupid shit. Alot of stupid shit. Some stuff that I really dont know why I did it or what I was thinking when I did. So I am not casting stones for stupidity; I am a very dumb individual at times. But what I am saying is- do yourself and all of us a favor and write something thats home grown. Make it organic. I dont want copy and paste. I dont even want derivative. I want you to freeze your hands in place until you're able to forget that hungry cliche you're so tempted to jot down and wait for it to grow into something unique. Something thats going to make others say " Damn, I wish I wrote that".
If your going to write, take responsibility for what your putting out there. If not, then I will continue to throw up when I read you stuff.
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