Feels and Screens

A girl is outdoors on an island or somewhere remote, with lots of plants and space. She calls out for her friend to come over to check out a painting she completed. He comes over and the two are sitting closely on the ground as she pulls out the drawing to show him. It was dark and twisted with a lot of scribbles and dark colors. He wants to be supportive so he lets her know how great it was. He was indeed instantly touched by its graphic detail and felt affected and a bit inspired. He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a pen and he is immediately transported and shown sitting at a wooden desk next to a window, indoors. Cut to a girl reading the script while he is reciting it at a coffee shop. She's really impressed and applauds with enthusiasm, a satisfied face.

The second girl is talking on the phone at nighttime, the script in her hand that she got from the show. The girl on the other line is giving a lot of feedback which seems to be comforting to hear. Each of them are in their own bedrooms - but the new girl's room is a technologically revved up graphic edited from the girl from the coffee shop's room (shown left and right on a split screen). 

This modern-looking techie girl starts chatting away online to a person who is shown to be a decent looking, young and fresh business employee wearing a suit. Sitting in his cubicle he types back, demonstrating a bond being made and felt. The man takes a spin in his office chair, and he bangs out like three e-mails that hit folks in all corners of the screen. Wearing pajamas, one of the e-mail recipients transformed from the office chair in a screen transition. 

The cubicle sort of turns into the bed because in principle, they both represents how communication is being confined as our bodies are physically. The length, quality, and detail decline in quality as the communication channels are updated. The conversation is not supposed to be of good news, but more of a positive and thought-provoking subject everyone tries to share by passing it on.

This sedentary but comfortable woman makes a post on Facebook. Her daughter wiggles in for some time on the laptop and finding friends on facebook. She shouts "Friends! Friends!" and clicks "Like" and "Like" as the screen turns into her phone and she walks with it in front of her face. A few other girls walk with her, all in the same zombie rhythm, all with their phones in front of their face. The screens all start growing to the size of IPads. but they ultimately form into masks that envelop their whole bodies, covering them like metal casts and turning them into puppet robots. The screen backs up and the robots are revealed to be from a show on a television, which someone is watching. The woman talks back to the TV, sitting in the dark on a couch. She is old and crazy, lives alone, and doesn't move around much.

The TV talks back like in the IPhone commercials. Cut to down the hall and through a few doors and corners, a girl sits alone in white empty room. She is lying on the floor with a diary flipped open in front of her. Lined up, she has a choice of a crayon, a pen, a stick, and a knife. 

Staring down at the blank page in front of her, she slowly, carefully but sloppily writes "Dear Diary, This is how I feel..." A person does a voiceover the young girl shown, consumed by writing. 

There are better ways to share yourself and communicate your feelings than others. The majority of expressive communication is shared in hopes of a response. With the reward of approval missing, describing a situation or a feeling should be a positive exercise in recognizing your true thoughts and venting if in need. 

The first girl, with the painting....

Dollar for a Tear

Getting money for it? It is difficult to think that way when I have already tried accepting the way that things are. Having free reign to blatantly complain and spell out how much things suck its like talking shit about Darcy. If she could hear me, she wouldn't want to be reminded how big of a mistake she made. If I express about my suffering, the times when I failed in some way will inevitably be examined cause I tend to blame those on her. Ideally I would like to take responsibility for all my circumstances because I'd like to believe I have total control overall. But the task is to describe the suffering for the intention of it being evaluated and then translated into dollar amounts. Well the idea is released in my brain and I will probably figure out the best way to prepare.

I Am that I Am

I am God. You are too. This means we can control what we perceive the world to be around us. We can change our emotions and induce new ones by selective attention. If you give enough worry or consideration for a certain concept than you are sure to be persuaded by it. By creating new ideas and goals and possibilities, our attention, our constructed realities can be controlled a bit better and possibly make life better than you can imagine.

Helen Kellersign

Saw a great billboard today, most likely made from the values.com campaign. A photo of Helen Keller and the text "Could see only possibilities"
Sometimes I feel that way. I refuse to see things the way they presumably are and instantly imagine the ever changing state of everything else and never assume there to be any limitations. There is always some alternate possibility for most any situation or occurring, plus there are multiple ways in which to feel emotionally towards it - perspectives vary.

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