In the effort of trying to improve myself, I signed up for an online creative writing course. After months and months of procrastination I finally did my first assignment. This assignment was to try and portray myself from another persons perspective. In doing this I thought there are two sides to every story, why not try to write my assignment like that.
Alison returned home from work one cloudy Tuesday afternoon, seeing her wife sitting on the couch she proclaimed to her;
“I finally met you’re friend Chastiser today.”
“Really?” She replied not looking up from her book, “What did you think of him?”
“I’m not quite sure,” she mused “He seemed different to how I imagined him. I had this impression he was just this wacky nerdy guy who spends most of his time playing with his computer or his phone. But he seemed so much different, he was dressed in all black. I would never have guessed that and he actually had long hair like a wannabe rock star.”
Alison’s wife, Tegan chuckled to herself has she continued.
“I mean, is he someone that sits at home playing computer games and reading fan-fic? Or does he spend his time at rock concerts, listening to heavy metal and drinking with his friends?”
“No!” Tegan interrupted “He’s also a regular church goer. And as for the drinking with his friends thing; he would probably say ‘I don’t have any friends’, and he doesn’t drink.”
“Wow,” Alison reflected, “I guess there are so many sides to one person, that you probably would never really truly know someone.”
“That’s a bit negative Alison. Once you get to know someone, you begin to understand the different layers everyone has. Take Chastiser, for example. He starts off as a quiet person; people think he might be sick or have a cold. But once you really get to know him, he isn’t quiet, he is just another nerdy guy that likes to have fun and joke around, and yeah, he listens to heavy metal and dresses all in black but that don’t really make the man, does it?”
“Sounds complex,” Alison remarked.
“I don’t know if I would consider it complex. I think Chastiser is just someone that tried to be an individual, maybe his interests span across different ‘sub-cultures’.” Tegan made little quotation marks as she did this. “But that’s just his interests and he doesn’t seem to feel the need to hide that fact. For instance; did you know he has an obsession with the Romantic period and loves to read poems from the likes of Keats and Wordsworth. Also he keeps harping on about how much he would love to write a story like Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein; Or the Modern Prometheus’, he seems to be fascinated with the ‘two sided’ approach to telling a story.”
“Interesting! I guess my first impression of him really didn’t give me an impression of him at all. Maybe there is more to him.” Alison ponders “Isn’t it amazing how talking about this one person has got me contemplating how much I judge society by first impressions.”
“Sounds like a life lesson.” Tegan chuckled again and returned to her book.
