Didion's quote ( Journal#2 )

Didion says that "we are brought up in the ethic that others...are by definition more interesting than ourselves." And Ellis stated that "we don't like writing diaries because we don't think our life is important enough."

My understanding of these statements is that some people have boundless imagination; they can create amazing ideas and plots for the wonderful books, which could be best sellers. Nonetheless they think that their thoughts and internal world are not interesting to others, because most of us have a lot of things in our heads. But not everyone has talent to write a book.

Almost everyday people do the same things. Let’s take, as an example, the life of an ordinary working man. From Monday till Friday he gets up early in the morning, takes a shower, has breakfast and goes to work. After work he goes back home, has dinner, watches TV and etc. May be he has hobbies or he participates in different kind of clubs. Anyway it sounds like a routine. All of us encounter with such situations in our lives. In connection with this we begin to consider that our lives are not interesting and important than somebody else’s life. Don’t forget that all people are different; everyone has unique way of understanding and attitude towards the same things, events or something else.

Some people can be delighted by looking at the sunset, listening to the stir of leaves or smelling a rose. For others it doesn’t make sense, they don’t think anything towards such trifles. But our lives consist of a great number of trifles. That why we should realize, that every moment of lifetime is very meaningful and it will never repeat again.

In order to remember “these little things” people can keep a diary or write a book. May be there are a lot of talented writers around us but they hide their gifts behind the fear that their lives are not as significant as others’ ones. They have to be brave and start to develop as writers. The future will show who is right and who is wrong.