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RE: Sometimes, Being Here Now Just Has to Wait: 'The Terraces', From the Library of Unusual Twists (Original Art and Fiction)
This is great, man! I really like the strokes of the colors, how they move away from the light source. If I were a betting man, I would say you wrote this to open up for a lot of speculation. At first I thought hmm fish, but as the story progressed, I can't help but feel that this could also apply to cryptocurrency or something that concerns crab mentality, a sort of cultural commentary. I really like the turn, and I really feel like I'm on to something haha!
The terraces really threw me for a loop, I really didn't expect that from a title, no less! It's like you were already spoiling everything by piling on the mystery. Great job with this, brother!
Thanks for commenting @jedau, these odd parables rarely get any comment action, understandably, like 'what da heck is darealpaul talking about now?' I do like it when I read back over something that I write and see new meanings that I hadn't thought of initially. This was trying to be a parable about life in general and the persistent confusion about what is valuable in life, but when I read back over it I could see variations, like, maybe this could be about Steemit itself? Like trying to escape minnow-dome is a mistake, and that we miss out on reality by focusing on a fantasy 'next level'. I really appreciate reading your thoughts on it, thank you!
Oh man, trippy parables are my jam! I really like injecting meaning and over analyzing things, so stuff that begs for that is always great for me. I once got invited by a sociology professor to a scholar dinner just because I wrote a review of A River Runs Through It which related the drama to the Great Depression, among other seemingly unconnected things. So yeah, I'm all for these kinds of stories.
Ahh yeah, that's what I thought after I wrote my comment, the crab mentality of people trying to pull each other down instead of lifting other people up. This certainly could relate to any number of topics. That's what's great about it!
I appreciate this-- I think part of the trick here is to keep it short, before it begins to sound like it has any medicine hidden in it! I once told @dreemit that I was giving up parable writing here because my intent and message was obscured intentionally, and I doubted that many would bother to decipher it-- in fact a good parable's message will elude the majority. Here, such a formula doesn't necessarily translate into lots of upvotes or comments, so I felt like I was writing them for myself, and or scaring people away. Yet here I am again, writing these mysterious little oddballs and hitting 'POST', and now I'm glad that I did. Thank you!
No, thank you. While it wasn't a smashing hit with the votes, it did cross the $10 threshold, which is my new benchmark for success, so yeah. I feel you should just keep posting what you feel like. I've given up on trying to write posts catered to what people are looking for. Those almost always result in disappointment haha Know that you have people like @dreemit and I who appreciate the thought you put into these :D
Amen to that, I'm just getting to this as I'm so ridiculously far behind on even the small handful of people that I love and adore here. I'm glad I resist the urge to rush and skim just to be timely :)
Great comments, like fine wine, only gets better with time haha