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starmekitten
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 Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:33:25
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so tonight I helped a friend out by reading over their essay and doing a bit of editing, she called me to discuss it and afterwards we chatted about this and that and nothing in particular, we got on to the subject of what people we know will be in a few years time and she told me the future story of my life.
it goes like this.
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After graduation you will get a job in a lab, because you're good at this science shit, you'll move to a bohemian part of a big city and have one of those flats you shouldn't be able to afford but can because of the nice little old lady owner. Every sunday you will walk your dog down to the park and spend the day watching the people, reading books and letting your dog run around. You'll work in a lab and you'll be good at it, you'll have people around you who continually do things wrong and you'll find yourself having to ask them "What the fuck are you doing that for" and say things like "fuck this shit I'm going for a cigarette" you will smoke a lot of cigarettes and you will say fuck a lot. You'll work in the lab for a few years and you'll get offered promotions and career development but you'll pass on them all because you are convinced the lab is where you want to be, you're comfortable and happy.
One day though it won't be enough, you'll tell your old lady landlady you plan to move to paris to write.
You'll again be lucky with your apartment small but interesting, the sort of place you shouldn't be able to afford but can probably due to a relative of the little old lady. You'll spend your days writing and hanging out at coffee shops drinking lots of black coffee and just watching the people go by. One morning you will notice a guy eyeing you up and you'll think "What the fuck? people don't eye me up, whats he want?" you're very jaded. The guy will come and sit at your table and you'll think "oh fuck off!" This guy isn't eyeing you up he is a publisher and he will ask to see what you are writing, he will be interested and you will be published. This guy has a brother, he is an artist, you don't believe in the one, you have had your heart broken you have had some good sex, but you are cynical and have given up on love, but when you meet him, and he meets you, you will both believe in the one. Plus, your dog likes him.
You believe in marriage, he doesn't but will do it to make you happy.
You will live in your apartment while he paints and you write and you will say to him "Did I ever tell you I was a scientist once, used to work in the lab with these fucking idiots who didn't know a fucking thing, I have masters too"
He will reply, "Yeah, you told me hundreds of fucking times" shut his studio door and you won't speak for the rest of the day until you make it all up in the dark.
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there you go, future story of my life as told by a friend. I pointed out to the girl that it was flawed as I couldn't actually write for shit and my grasp on the english language is poor at best, but she very sweetly replied that if I could write the way I talked then I could indeed write. Bless her.
Tomorrow morning I will tell her the future story of her life.
So get a friend, or someone who knows you, to tell the future story of your life.
And post it
Please.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
Edited by - starmekitten on 04/20/2005 16:57:09 |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:36:02
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starmekitten
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:36:26
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I'll write you one floop, tomorrow though
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PixieSteve
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:37:54
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didn't read yours but this seems decent enough to try some other time.
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:40:22
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My question is, does such a story say more about the one telling it than the subject of it?
 "I joined the Cult of Frank / Wooteenie!" |
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starmekitten
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:43:57
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way to kill the thread Dean
I think it tells about both, because it has some reference about the type of person you are and what they think about you and what they think you would like, with a coating of the tellers idealism splattered over it.
I also think it's just quite cute.
But, for true clarification I shall direct my friend to your question and see what she has to say. She's already read bits of this forum to see if I get into trouble or mention our hot lecturer.
Now go find a friend and see what they have to say about the future story of your life please.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
Edited by - starmekitten on 04/20/2005 16:48:21 |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 16:59:09
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evil hearted you, you always try to bring me down says:
steven will win a nobel peace prize for curing cancer (unexpectedly, while putting his cock in the microwave). he will marry kim deal, who will reveal t him she is actually a 271 yr old man called brain. this is also ther eason why the pixies split up. he will travel the world for about 20 years then return to homeland slough, where he will be become brer steven, the hippest gangsta not outta comp
evil hearted you, you always try to bring me down says:
ton
evil hearted you, you always try to bring me down says:
his frank balck shagging days will be forgotten
you can [sic] everything yourself.
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 17:07:34
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Heh, not meaning to kill, I just, not knowing either of you all that well, wonder who it's more a real reflection of. If I had any friends, I'd definitely cajole them into it.
Incidentally, this is my favourite part of your future:
"you will smoke a lot of cigarettes and you will say fuck a lot"
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
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Posted - 04/20/2005 : 19:02:04
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That is also my favorite part of her present life, Dean.
Kittie, why don't you tell me my future life? Because all I see in
my future is a hot shower and a long snooze, which is fine
with me.
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starmekitten
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 02:03:37
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sure K, but later after my coffee, my smoke and I have said fuck a few times..
What she had to say
It's more telling of you, because it's how I see your life the way I'd think you'd want it to be. and you've obviously given me that impression.
I think, it's how I see your life panning out in a "perfect" way. That is, I want you to be happy but, it's not going to be the smooth journey that we all hope it will be. one, the journey can be at best bumpy, a few pebbles in the way, unfortunately, for the likes of you and me, that road is strewn with fucking boulders (I recognise a kindred spirit when I see one...) therefore, the inevitable love interest who had to come up in the end (sex is a seller as they say...well I do) did ...but late... and he wasn't who you thought he was going to be because that's SO obvious (though I did cop out a bit with the whole brother thing, he should have been a friend of the publishers wise old uncles widows nephew or something, also making him an artist was a bit predicable, let's change him to a session musician or something like that) but I knew he wouldn't be an investment banker or accountant because you're interesting and investment bankers and accountants tend not to be-so I want you to have a life beforehand. and I don't want it to be obvious because, baby you know that's not your style, You're already a bit jaded generally* and while I know you will find that "someone special" (eugh) THAT's my point... the whole someone special thing it's eugh, you're going to have been hurt and had your hearts ripped to shreds and sewn back together by you, your vast multitude of friends and that dog. but don't get me wrong, you're haven't got through your [name of a vapid little bitch we know] and [name of a really annoying prick we know] of the world yet...so by the time you meet the guy, you'll be reasonably bitter and cynical to make it all that more interesting.
as for the cigarettes and saying "fuck" a lot...don't we all? you more than most, have to keep something of the original you, quite interesting that that's what your friends liked best as it's the only thing that's currently true!
it's about 4 in the morning, if all the above dosen't make sense you know why, can hardly see properly, let alone think, don't know how you do it.
*see I'm only a BIT jaded already
So now we have cleared that up.
can someone else please post the futures story of their life as told by a friend
I have a couple to work on now.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
Edited by - starmekitten on 04/21/2005 02:05:49 |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 06:42:44
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Aparantly I will never get laid again. I have good friends.
I joined the secret forum, and all I got was this lousy secret
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