Facets

There is much happiness I find in new relationships.

I'm not talking solely about romantic relationships (although those come with their own fun and awkward introductions, as I am currently re-investigating). I'm talking about all types of relationships. Facebook-friend-relationships. Five-minute-introduction-relationships. Lunch-gang-relationships. Relationships based on sharing texts in class. Relationships centered around a common caffeine addiction. Probably most importantly, the relationship between a writer and their medium.

I find it particularly difficult to write on paper. I think after countless classes of Computer and Typing, after countless hours of Instant Messenger and e-mail, paper these days borders on the sentimental. I'd like to think my writing avoids the sentimental and has the gift of "seeing things as they really are", as quite a few Marina Carr characters would dream to have accomplished.

But I guess that all depends on if we share a common opinion as to how things should be seen, and how things really are. If you are reading this I assume that we have at least common elements in thought that have previously brought our relationship to a strong enough point where I can relax and give you pieces of me through this blog. So perhaps, we see things in a common light. I am not sure if any two people can compare how things really are.

I do trust that you separate the author from the person. Writing always reveals a part and not a whole. So I suppose what you find here is an edited version of many facets of me, of how these facets form to see things and emote how they function together to produce a reality of sorts.

Currently, this is my reality.
I expect that to change.