In the heads of others

[outlier_lynn]

In all my years, I have known many professional and amateur preformers. Musicians; movie, tv and stage actors; comics; dancers; performance artists.

I have from time to time wanted to be all of those things. Never for reasons that pushed me to actually do anything about it, though.

When I watch actors working, I know that they have many technical things on their minds. They have to hit their marks, make their cues, deliver a believable character. Often when their bodies are protesting.

I have discovered a little something about myself today. Just now, actually. :)

There are many fiction characters I have fallen head over heals in love with. Many. Often I will fall for characters in movies. (At least I know it is the CHARACTER and not the actor. :)

Here's what is going on. I'm never second guessing the characters I fall for. I take them completely at face value. They act in ways consistant with what they say. They do what they say they will do. And they strive!

When I fell for Jan, it was based on what she said (She was the first OUT woman to address the United Nations Sub Committee on Human Rights in queer relatied Oral Intervention; she was in a peace mission that went to Yugoslavia before it all went south and several other wonderous things) and how she lived. I took her at face value.

I LIKE taking people at face value. I get hurt often. But the highs are so damn much higher.



Just reenforces I really do love people. People have greatness available to them within easy reach.

(Just have to get a Rocky reference in) Don't dream it; be it!

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[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I LIKE taking people at face value. I get hurt often. But the highs are so damn much higher.

...and I like myself much better when I don't spend my life in a little ball of suspicion and cynicism.