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Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest
29/10/12
Monday. A usually tedious start to the week fails to live up to expectations as i have the week off. Due to the aforementioned holiday, i'm back at home and having to write on an ipod. It's being written in 'notes' and i'm going to copy and paste to Wildminds, so apologies for more error in grammer, graphology or spelling than usual.
The journey back to Sheffield wasn't great, if i'm honest. I set off to the station only to find that i had been ill informed by my mother about the train timetable. You probably think an hour in the fresh air waiting for the next train would give rise to the oppotunity of reflective thinking and relaxig. You're wrong. My brain was almost too cold to function, let alone emerse myself into tranquility. Incase you doubt my personal account, i caught glimpse of snow ; winter's coming.
Enough complaints (for now). I'm rested, showered and the sight of the full moon in the openings of illuminated, silver clouds gives the evening a romantic and inspiring atmospere. I don't know if you've seen the new 'Derren Brown: Apocolypse', but i would definately recommend it. Derren takes an unknowing individual and using a series of techniques, he transports the man to a mystery location and makes him believe the world has ended in his most elaborate set-up to date. Besides evoking a textbook, TVguide description of the show, resembling that of Scoffield's morning show, it got me thinking. If i was in his position, how would i react? Would i fight for survival? I like to think that i have the survival instincts to survive (if it were real), but we can all speculate about how we'd react, but it may not resemble the truth. However, Derren's first line of the show struck me most of all, "if the world ended tomorrow, could you honestly say you lived a good life", or something to that tune. I can honestly say, no. I missed oppotunities through choices of my own; gone through life in a half-hearted fasion and though i often kid myself, deep down i know i've shown little regard for others, neither helping nor hindering them. I feel it's time for a change and can only hope this isn't a temporary whim.
In other news, i've started reading - for the first time in around four years - with a view to broadening my lexicon. I finished reading 'Tricks of the Mind' by the mentalist we previously spoke about and i'm currently half way through 'The Time Machine', H G Wells' classic novel about just that. It's a short book; forty pages, but a great read nonetheless.
I have also just read the comments on my first entry. I'd be lying if i wasn't a little disappointed that they centered around Tesco's chicken (i jest, of course), but i'd just like to say, i sincerely appreciate them and hope you continue to not only follow my ramblings, but to enjoy them also.
The journey back to Sheffield wasn't great, if i'm honest. I set off to the station only to find that i had been ill informed by my mother about the train timetable. You probably think an hour in the fresh air waiting for the next train would give rise to the oppotunity of reflective thinking and relaxig. You're wrong. My brain was almost too cold to function, let alone emerse myself into tranquility. Incase you doubt my personal account, i caught glimpse of snow ; winter's coming.
Enough complaints (for now). I'm rested, showered and the sight of the full moon in the openings of illuminated, silver clouds gives the evening a romantic and inspiring atmospere. I don't know if you've seen the new 'Derren Brown: Apocolypse', but i would definately recommend it. Derren takes an unknowing individual and using a series of techniques, he transports the man to a mystery location and makes him believe the world has ended in his most elaborate set-up to date. Besides evoking a textbook, TVguide description of the show, resembling that of Scoffield's morning show, it got me thinking. If i was in his position, how would i react? Would i fight for survival? I like to think that i have the survival instincts to survive (if it were real), but we can all speculate about how we'd react, but it may not resemble the truth. However, Derren's first line of the show struck me most of all, "if the world ended tomorrow, could you honestly say you lived a good life", or something to that tune. I can honestly say, no. I missed oppotunities through choices of my own; gone through life in a half-hearted fasion and though i often kid myself, deep down i know i've shown little regard for others, neither helping nor hindering them. I feel it's time for a change and can only hope this isn't a temporary whim.
In other news, i've started reading - for the first time in around four years - with a view to broadening my lexicon. I finished reading 'Tricks of the Mind' by the mentalist we previously spoke about and i'm currently half way through 'The Time Machine', H G Wells' classic novel about just that. It's a short book; forty pages, but a great read nonetheless.
I have also just read the comments on my first entry. I'd be lying if i wasn't a little disappointed that they centered around Tesco's chicken (i jest, of course), but i'd just like to say, i sincerely appreciate them and hope you continue to not only follow my ramblings, but to enjoy them also.
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Comment by Eva Nescent on April 26, 2013 at 9:13pm
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Hope the want for a change kept up! I really love that quote too, it's good to think about stuff like that every once and a while.
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