Random rants from a random rambling soul

Man! i am running out of titles to put for my reflections. Any suggestions?

Anyway let me reflect about class as usual. We had what i would call a rather intense and emotional lesson. We had to read our letters to the past where we had to write to someone who we no longer talk to any longer. We were broken up into groups and all us girls were split up. This was good for the first time as i think if there were more of us in the class, we might have actually cried. But i guess being surrounded by testerone-filled guys somehow their “thou shall not cry” commandment must have subconscious rubbed off onto us-well to me anyway.Oh that was a compliment by the way. haha.

Well to me it was like entering a therapy session as we each shared out stories. There we saw a different side of some of our classmates. It was a good insight I must say as they were the kind of things that we would not usually talk about.

After which Ryan read us his letter. It was a rather moving and emotional letter. I really admired him after that (No, I am not saying it for more marks,not that there will be anything wrong if he gave them to me:D) as I think it takes a lot of courage to pour all your emotions out onto a piece of paper and reading it out to a group of students-not once but three times.

Then something he told us hit me at that moment. I remember he said that as writers we must think how much of ourselves we want to share with people. I guess it is fine if you are sharing happy things like your first birthday and things like that. However delving into the more touchy stuff like how your parents divorced or you got abused when you were young takes a lot of courage to write. It depends on how much of yourself are you willing to share with your readers.

I realized that authors who write about their own experiences via a biography or when they use an event that happen in their life in their stories it somehow is much better than when not written through experience. I guess the key might have been that it was written with and through emotions so that as readers we can relate to it. An example would be Chicken Soup for the soul series.

However the same does not really go with screenwriting. The stories written about reality such as Election where nitty gritty details of life were shown and where not so happy endings are added as a bonus-they do not become a hit.

Maybe it is because we do not like to see our hunks and babes of Hollywood fail in a task or in life. Thus happy endings usually are better received.

Though like everything there are exceptions. I think Titanic would be a good example. Where the hunky (?) hero of the show Leonardo died at the end. I remembered the number of people cursing at the end of the movie as they watched him die.

The only times sad movies make it through, is when it is star-studded and/or have really good characters.

I still feel that movies should have happy endings and if you want the gore and depressing stuff just tune in to the news:D

Ohh heres a picture that i thought is funny. It was under political humor though so i am not sure if i can post it here.So if i am not supposed to erm… let me know.

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