redrobin62 wrote:
I also think I'm a good short story writer. Some of my short stories have been published so I guess it's not so bad.
I really enjoyed your short stories in your book Wetland and Other Stories. You have a powerful way with making likable characters, or, many that I could feel strongly for while reading. To be completely honest, many of the short stories had me liking the characters enough to hope you'll make another book and perhaps elaborate on their lives, or at least, extend the travels of those that lived.
As for me, I don't really have a list of things as much as today's experience sort of took me aback and showed me how much I've progressed in the last few years.
I've not had proper food to eat for the last two days. Yesterday, I ate about 4 cups of rice, some tuna, and a few small pieces of baked chicken (Went to the store today). So, another Sunday morning where I've not eaten for 14 hours and hadn't eaten properly, and my father calls at 6am(this insomniac wasn't asleep until 1 or 2 am) to pick me up for church 7am service, and even though I've not been feeling God and been thinking to tell him I don't wish to go anymore, went with him anyway as I know it means a lot to him when I go. So two hours in service and while I wasn't personable being weak from lack of food, I also didn't go in with an outward mood.
My father, too, just prior to service, told me that he had to change our plans to go to the music store tomorrow, to today. He almost never breaks plans so it was quite unexpected. I wasn't prepared to go, so I hadn't readied myself for it for today... but accepted that the plans changed without letting it frustrate me like it would have immensely a couple years back.
Then when we got there, the goal was to trade in my performance amplifier for a classical guitar to work on branching out my music style and begin early classical studies before reaching university for music (don't know anybody to jam with anyway making the amp far beyond my needs). The experience was painless for the most part. I worked on being social with the people I was tethered to for the next twenty minutes to make the trade, and found it interestingly near effortless. Though when the trade value came to face, I had to decline the trade as it was a few hundred lower than even the guy at the register helping understood it should have been (value is based on a policy of sourcing ebay auctions and comparing them to store prices, so the values shift with chance and time). In the past I would have had a sense of tension in my voice, felt like I was being labeled a fool, and have been quietly rude and wanted to get out ASAP, though today, I just felt, "it is what it is" and left on good terms to go back at some later date when the offer is better in my favor.
I liked how I handled the store experience today, and not how I would have a few years back... I feel much more pleasant, capable of handling social improvisation, and certainly not nearly so self absorbed... with seeing this is as much the people I'd been socializing/bartering with's day as much as it was mine, and to try and leave as positive an experience in their day as possible, even though plans hadn't really worked out on either's end.
26 Apr 2014, 4:59 am
