The Laughing Magickian
[member="Jay Scott Clark"]
There's merit to this idea of simply not worrying about the idea of being cliche', but I 'd say go a step further and deliberately embrace it.
There's an idea of a "conflict of influence," which is very Oedipal in nature. You emulate a master/mentor (or in this case, cliche') with the desire to be that thing that he/she is. Ultimately, however, you will be exposed to different circumstances and the simple fact that you ARE different will lead that cliche' to BECOME different, just like when the Missing Piece tried to chase the Big O. Luke destroyed the Death Star not because he "used the Force" in his effort to emulate Obi-Wan Kenobi -- He destroyed it because he'd made that kind of a shot a billion times as a bored farmboy shooting wamprats in a T-16 Skyhopper. He became what he always was. There are few roads up the Tree of Life, but there are many Saints/Ishta-Devata.
Appreciate that your brain is fundamentally different from everyone else's, and even if the culture at large recognizes these things as cliche's, your interpretation as to why and how they are is likely to be different. It's the journey, not the destination, and if you're on the road to enlightenment and you see the Buddha walking toward you, murder him.
There's merit to this idea of simply not worrying about the idea of being cliche', but I 'd say go a step further and deliberately embrace it.
There's an idea of a "conflict of influence," which is very Oedipal in nature. You emulate a master/mentor (or in this case, cliche') with the desire to be that thing that he/she is. Ultimately, however, you will be exposed to different circumstances and the simple fact that you ARE different will lead that cliche' to BECOME different, just like when the Missing Piece tried to chase the Big O. Luke destroyed the Death Star not because he "used the Force" in his effort to emulate Obi-Wan Kenobi -- He destroyed it because he'd made that kind of a shot a billion times as a bored farmboy shooting wamprats in a T-16 Skyhopper. He became what he always was. There are few roads up the Tree of Life, but there are many Saints/Ishta-Devata.
Appreciate that your brain is fundamentally different from everyone else's, and even if the culture at large recognizes these things as cliche's, your interpretation as to why and how they are is likely to be different. It's the journey, not the destination, and if you're on the road to enlightenment and you see the Buddha walking toward you, murder him.
