Confusion!
I've been confused about a number of things, in a situation that I'm not really sure how to solve. Every time I think about it, I get just about nowhere, and I can't help but think about it a lot. All this in my mind has made me go a little crazy, sometimes. But, this has a purpose. I'm not complaining about my life, I'm telling an amusing anecdote. Interesting way of starting it off, huh?
Anyway, last night, around 2:00 or so, my roommate Aaron and I were discussing random things. We had watched A Beautiful Mind (definitely on my list of favorite movies now, I'm just not quite sure where it places), and were discussing things. We got into talking about our favorite movies were all so very different from one another and how that (at first glance) didn't seem to make all that much sense. I mean, we liked movies all across the board in subject, and it would seem that if you like one movie, and there was another in the same genre that wasn't quite as good, then you would like that other movie better than some good movies in other genres. But we looked at the possibility of having a sequel of a movie, so the same movie, the same script, and having it done very well. We asserted that it was a good movie. Would you enjoy watching both of them, or would one take on preference, and the other not be worth watching? That was the question. But with a little bit of thinking, we decided that both would be very good to watch, and you really wouldn't get as complete an idea of the movie without seeing both. Aaron compared it to a play; seeing a couple different productions of the same play is always good, so it stands to sense that the same thing would hold for movies.
Later, we were talking about the difference between two movies, A Beautiful Mind versus Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They seemed very similar in theme to me. They both seemed (to me) to be focused on the relationship of two people, and that was the main point of the movie. But Aaron pointed out that, although A Beautiful Mind was definitely focused on the relationship as its point, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind instead focused on the relationship as a way of communicating an idea besides the relationship. This made a lot of sense to me, and I was happy.
Why are these amusing anecdotes? And how the devil do they connect to a situation in which I feel helpless to find answers? Well, since I have been thinking about this problem for so long, and since I haven't been able to come to any conclusions, it was a wonderful feeling to think about something and come to logical conclusions immediately and easily. I find it amusing that it's such a wonderful feeling when that happens, because it shows how much this problem has screwed my mind.
Hehehe. Bad things make other things funnier! Perhaps this is the answer to the age-old question of why there is evil. It is so apparent right now that it would be impossible to experience good without having bad things as well. Maybe this is an oversimplification, but it makes a ton of sense to me at the moment.
Adieu for now.