Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

Monday, February 18, 2013

Mine - part one



I imagine my life as very interesting. It’s like old pictures, how they go back and add color to them. I remember this picture from my eighth grade history textbook, with a bunch of suffragists protesting for the vote, and there was a baby in a stroller. They had added blue eyes and rosy cheeks, but it really just made the baby look feverish. Sometimes I do that to my life. For example, if I go to a restaurant and there’s a really cute waiter, I might create this story in my head, like he’s secretly in love with me or something. It’s quite pathetic really.
            So I suppose the point of this rambling explanation is this: know ahead of time that the majority of what I tell you probably didn’t happen. And it most definitely didn’t happen the way I think.

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