the stories were always flat and sort of pointless
That's not my experience. But then I know some real 'characters' ;) One in particular not only lit up the story, but when he read it himself he was happier than I have ever seen him IRL.
Every year that goes by I become more convinced that I understood nothing about people when I was twenty, and not very much when I was thirty. As for how I could explain why that is to someone younger, it seems to have defeated everyone else as well.
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Date: 2009-10-02 09:08 pm (UTC)That's not my experience. But then I know some real 'characters' ;) One in particular not only lit up the story, but when he read it himself he was happier than I have ever seen him IRL.
Every year that goes by I become more convinced that I understood nothing about people when I was twenty, and not very much when I was thirty. As for how I could explain why that is to someone younger, it seems to have defeated everyone else as well.