Darshana and I had today (you guessed it!) A Serious Discussion on Why Weird Awesome Things Will Never Happen To Us. We realized in synchronized ‘enlightenment dawned on her’ moments that we were a little too perfectly wired toward appreciating the weird and fantastical to actually come in contact with anything that could really really fit the description.
What I mean is, imagine one day there is an actual real Zombie Attack…while everyone would run screaming through the city, we’d probably be giddy with delight at the fact that FINALLY it is actually happening. We’d kick vampire butt if ever called to do so, with our knowledge of n+1 ways of killing the bloodsuckers, or if an alien life form were to suddenly appear before me and ask my help to build a Galactotranspositer you can bet you’re arse, I’d be calling up my engineering cousin to enlist his help pronto.
And that is the problem isn’t it? Weird Awesome Things will never happen to us, because we’ve already imagined them happening a million times over. Not for us to see a compulsive cool samurai style fight between the two chaps on the metro, not for us a sudden mysterious blood soaked stranger pushing a dirty torn letter into our hands filled with war time codes. No, none of this is meant for us, because instead of fainting/screaming/going into hysterics/asking what, when, where and a million other questions, we’d be completely in our element and ready to go.
Telling us…me (Darshana doesn’t know I am writing this, though I have been using the collective for a while now) that the Weird Awesome Things …er…um…you see…oh! what the heck…DO NOT EXIST…does not in anyway reduce the gravity of our discussion.
5 responses so far ↓
Sroyon // February 8, 2009 at 6:54 am
Interesting idea, but I don’t think it fits the facts. Look at me. I find wonderment and awe in all that I behold around me, and still nothing happens to me that could objectively be described as a Weird Awesome Thing.
praxist // February 10, 2009 at 5:32 am
I am not quite sure I get what you are saying, but here’s the thing…I do see as you put it wonderment and awe at a lot of things around me, a lot of things that people just don’t seem to see, unless you point it out and even then they a) only sometimes get it b) give me a weak “Ah, i see it now” c)more often that not “dude, you are creeping me out”, but the exact point is that because I find the wonderment and awe I’d probably be very comfortable with say a Weird Awesome thing happening, which therefore cannot happen to me. In the sense, in all the books and movies in the world, the characters are always taken by surprise. I don’t know, I am not probably explaining it right.
Darshana // February 28, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I know! I know! Woefully, I know!
praxist // March 1, 2009 at 2:46 am
Of course you would, I never doubted that for a second. Sucks, doesn’t it? Wait, don’t answer that, I KNOW! sigh!
troubleshooting-spb // September 26, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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