Brain Waves

Part One: The Middle

All good stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. That's an unspoken rule between writers that translates over into the real world as well. From a very early age we are taught to follow the same structure. Beginning. Middle. End. It's simple and enables a person to create a plot for any length narrative they would like. Structure is a key part of human life, regardless of if it is present or absent. When structure is present, a person is perceived to be organised and 'well put together' however when it is not, those people are most often characterised as chaotic and all over the place. Through observations of people in my life I find that the majority of them rely very heavily on structure. For example, my headteacher at secondary school clings desperately to structure and claims it to be vital but if you were to ask my friends, the opinion would be vastly opposite.

I've always been fascinated with how people work and what makes us who we are from a very early age. I was a relatively intelligent child, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be in the future and I never questioned anything I was told. Looking back, I believe my passion for others stemmed from a protective mechanism that I adopted as a child. Never being well liked has its advantages in the future I suppose.

So now I'm writing. Writing my thoughts. Thoughts I can't quite explain to the people I know but nevertheless I continue writing. It's how I cope with things and how I remember important emotions. For me writing gives me a structure when everything else is unordered and out of place. I shall continue writing and telling random people on the internet my problems regardless of the consequences. It's quite a freeing and exhilarating thing, writing to the internet. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.