Life is Fiction

I forgot how deep and moving a movie, Stranger Than Fiction Was, obviously it had a great connection to this class. I liked the part where Kay, was saying, "I killed eight people." Beckett rang though my head, no surprises there. The epiphany came when Dr. Sexson, said, "What story are you in." It was the only line in my notes that day. I have often struggled with this concept myself. I sometimes find my self looking around at people, and thinking, there not real people, as if someone just made them up. I think we have all been here before, because we already existed before, we just keep getting another chance, until we get it right. This just reminded my of The Truman Show, a movie staring Jim Carrey, where he plays a man living in a fake world, literally everyone he knows and sees are actors and he basically lives in a studio for most of his life, and the show is filmed as broadcast on T.V. in the real world. That makes me ask, how could anyone of us really know the difference, maybe this life is fake, maybe I'm just an actor? Leafing through "Burnt Norton" I stumbled across this, "...Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish / Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, / Will not stay still." It made me think about stories and how they try to capture life, try to make it a dream or just a story. Yet as time goes on these words cannot create this perfect dream or story. So keep writing is the answer I guess, I do not guess, I know.