Saturday, February 7, 2009

I hope this never happens to me!!

If I had returned from a summer trip to find that my father had passed away my first feeling would be extreme sadness.  I would be mad at myself after the initial shock wore off.  I would be mad if I left my father and he had passed away, even if it was unexpected.  I feel that my life would be greatly affected by me not being able to say goodbye.  I hope that never happens. After the death of my father, if my mother remarried to a low life who took over my fathers affairs and claimed his success I would be furious! First of I would be enraged with anger at my mother for remarrying so soon to such a loser.  I would first have to talk to my mother and try to convince her to leave this awful man.  With respect to my father, I would try to do everything I could to maintain his reputation and get his business back into the "real" family. I would make a plot to try to make this man look bad in front of the community and show everyone what he really was, a horrible. man!  In order to make this happen I would have to gain his trust, even though it would not be real and then expose to my mother first what he is really doing.  
If I wanted to make people believe I was insane, there are some things I can think of, even though I am kind of already a little crazy.  In order for people to truly believe that I was insane, I would have to have the people closest to me in life believe that I was insane.  First I would say things out of no where that don't have any relevancy or make any sense.  I would have to talk to myself and not perform the same hobbies I usually do.  Instead I would pick up some weird hobby like making a ton of bird-houses or something else that  I would never do.  The last step to making people believe I am crazy is to truly act insane.  I could do this by eating grass or running around all over the place.  This would draw a lot of attention and if I saw someone acting this way I would definitely think that they were insane.  Being very seclusive would also be a very important step in making people believe that I was insane.  
If I found out that one of my friends had been spying on me I would be confused and disturbed.  I would want to know how long they had been spying on me for and why they were doing it. The trust in that relationship would be completely destroyed and I would question everything that that person and I had experienced for real or fake.  The hardest part about that experience would be loosing a friend and also having that constant feeling of someone is watching me all of the time.  I would probably disconnect all communication with that person and be very conscious of people watching me.  I'm sure I would experience a sense of paranoia after that experience.  I would feel extremely violated and kind of creeped out after the whole spying situation.  

1 comment:

David Lavender said...

Natalie,

Great post (I appreciate how thoroughly you cover all the bases here!). But birdhouses? I think there are a lot of retirees across the nation whom we'd have to classify as insane given your description.

I'm anxious to see what you think of Hamlet's response to all this!