A Wrinkle in Time
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What does this line mean to you?
Saski
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Aug 14, 2012 10:31AM
"...it was meant to make me not hate being only me, and me being the way I am." (italics mine - page 205)
I was so startled to see this. It is a question I struggled with since I was very young, at least as I have interpreted it, which is I am stuck here in this body, and only this body. I will only experience things through this body and I will never ever experience anything from any other perspective.
This idea tormented me, would throw me down a dark whirlpool from which I almost could not exit. I have only spoken of it once, again when I was very young, and the response I received was "Don't be ridiculous! That's how life is. Get over it."
Has anyone else felt this?
What does this line mean to you?
I was so startled to see this. It is a question I struggled with since I was very young, at least as I have interpreted it, which is I am stuck here in this body, and only this body. I will only experience things through this body and I will never ever experience anything from any other perspective.
This idea tormented me, would throw me down a dark whirlpool from which I almost could not exit. I have only spoken of it once, again when I was very young, and the response I received was "Don't be ridiculous! That's how life is. Get over it."
Has anyone else felt this?
What does this line mean to you?
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This was Meg's interpretation of 1 Corinthians 1:25-28 that Mrs. Who quoted to her before she went to save Charles Wallace.
Yeah, I think I kinda get what you mean. I couldn't find the quote in my edition (mine ends on page 203), but I'm guessing it was said by Meg. I used to ask people about such things, and they either would express confusion, or would respond with what you got. I still occasionally get this feeling, but I usually can get around it by realizing that it's all relative.
You know when someone says, in order to cheer you up, "There's always someone who has it worse off than you, so cheer up."? I think of that as a terrible thing to say, because someone could always counter that with the equally-reasonable statement "there's always someone who has it better than you, so don't think you're really happy."
If you think about it, every single person who has ever existed has had a different perspective, been different from every single other person ever in whatever way. No one else will ever truly see things through other perspectives or live in another's body, either.
I have the same feeling quite often, but by reading books and watching movies, I can at least catch a glimpse of how things look through the lenses of other people's minds.
For instance, I think of the quote as said by an interesting character. I think everyone is interesting, because I try to imagine what their story would be like if the camera were to focus on them. Every single aspect of a person tells a story about them, just like fictitious characters. Every one of these stories is different.
I don't watch Doctor Who, but there was one quote I saw the other day that pretty much explained this: "Do you know in nine hundred years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before."
Ah, sorry. I seem to have rambled a bit. But I hope it wasn't in vain. To sum it all up: Yes. Other people get this feeling. At least one other does. And it's okay. Because at least we have stories and storytellers and imagination to see us through.
Also, this book is amazing.
You know when someone says, in order to cheer you up, "There's always someone who has it worse off than you, so cheer up."? I think of that as a terrible thing to say, because someone could always counter that with the equally-reasonable statement "there's always someone who has it better than you, so don't think you're really happy."
If you think about it, every single person who has ever existed has had a different perspective, been different from every single other person ever in whatever way. No one else will ever truly see things through other perspectives or live in another's body, either.
I have the same feeling quite often, but by reading books and watching movies, I can at least catch a glimpse of how things look through the lenses of other people's minds.
For instance, I think of the quote as said by an interesting character. I think everyone is interesting, because I try to imagine what their story would be like if the camera were to focus on them. Every single aspect of a person tells a story about them, just like fictitious characters. Every one of these stories is different.
I don't watch Doctor Who, but there was one quote I saw the other day that pretty much explained this: "Do you know in nine hundred years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before."
Ah, sorry. I seem to have rambled a bit. But I hope it wasn't in vain. To sum it all up: Yes. Other people get this feeling. At least one other does. And it's okay. Because at least we have stories and storytellers and imagination to see us through.
Also, this book is amazing.
I thought it was that time is typically linear but along comes a wrinkle and everything changes. Is time relative? Are there parallels of time? Other lives we are leading that we are unaware of until time becomes wrinkled???? Crazy? While I'm at it, could someone explain the meaning of life :)
Do you mean that you would like to experience life from inside another person or another body? (Like Meg is saying she is only one me instead of many?) Or do you mean you feel like your body limits you in some way? (Like Meg is saying she's "only me"... someone who has trouble loving herself?)
For me, it's the latter that sometimes tortures me. I sometimes feel like my body doesn't match who I am... I don't feel like how I look. So, it sometimes feels like my body is a limiting trap.
I sometimes look at others and wonder if they feel the same way. I look at people who are often ignored by society and wonder what's inside of them.
For me, it's the latter that sometimes tortures me. I sometimes feel like my body doesn't match who I am... I don't feel like how I look. So, it sometimes feels like my body is a limiting trap.
I sometimes look at others and wonder if they feel the same way. I look at people who are often ignored by society and wonder what's inside of them.
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