A Ramble Response

Tonight UK responds to Ze's ramble from last night.

Real life and fiction - a contradiction ?

Not really - we all edit our life and present ourselves and those we interact with, with an edited version. Would anyone really give the full real life account of their workday at the dinner table at night? I mean would your partner be interested in your account of the meetings you went to, the reports you wrote or the people you talked to during your day ... or would she rather have the highlights, the good or the bad, the things that was interesting, funny, specially boring or unusual? So we present an edited version, in some ways a fictional account of our day. We twist things a bit for the accounts to be entertaining, to fit the mood that we’re in, how we want our self to be perceived or what fits into the conversation. Does this make our accounts fiction?

Well perhaps anything and everything is fiction as soon as it has happened, as there is never one uniform opinion of an event be it big or small, significant or insignificant, everything is coloured by the eyes that observe, but the life we live and the life we talk about are the same and both real, nevertheless as soon as life "happens" to us it turns into fiction.

I guess the big difference between all us lowly readers and our "pen pushing" counterpart’s - the writers - are; who are the best storyteller. I for one must compliment Ze on her tales of the "happenings" in her life; they are funny, well written and tasty bits of ... fiction ;-)??

UK

I agree completely. Thanks for sharing, UK. Do you have something to say? Let us know. Enjoy the updates!

Elisa

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