Re: hmm....birthdays...

Marta Bashovski (zooey3@hotmail.com)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:17:41 -0800 (PST)

Brendan wrote:
PLEASE, folks, don't go on thinking that life ends at 18.  If you're a 
writer--or just think you are, like I do--then 16 is a creative 
wasteland filled with broken down love poems.  The real characters come 
out of the shadows of the late night, when you don't have to get up for 
school in the morning.

Hello,
I didn't mean that life ends at eighteen at all. I think what I was 
trying to say was that in high school there are so many different kinds 
of people to observe and interact with. I often find myself watching 
people in the cafeteria or in class because I see that I'm fascinated by 
how different from myself or my friends other people (people who are my 
*peers*) can be. I like to create characters from people I've met or 
have been fascinated by. This doesn't end with high school, of course, 
but I'm somehow under the impression that as soon as one enters the 
workforce all kinds of variety just vanish. I know that sounds 
absolutely ridiculous. I think, though, that maybe after high school the 
angst factor also diminishes and my view on many of these things will be 
altered.

- Marta 

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