Writer's Block: I wanna be just like you

[sariagray]

[Error: unknown template qotd] I am highly susceptible to suggestion and therefore, every book/movie/television show/musical anything in which I become even remotely absorbed becomes a iving force for my day-to-day endeavors. I think it also has something to do with the parts of my brain that focus on acting and writing. I used to work so hard at getting into people's headspaces that now I'm doing it almost out of habit. Not well, necessarily, but my brain has been trained to at least TRY. It was the most noticeable in high school - movies ranging from Schinder's List to Velvet Goldmine to Lord of the Rings would start to influence my behaviors, dress, speech patterns, even style of smoking. It's not quite the same thing, I know, especially as the characters weren't all admirable and, generally, it would be more of an encompassing thing. There are characters I admire, but I only emulate the traits I find desirable. I focus on this one's work ethic and that one's confidence and his compassion and her wit and so forth. It depends, too, upon the situation I'm in. I find myself thinking, for example, "be more like Tosh" while at work. A sort of guiding model for how I need to be. I guess none of this is actually the same at all. Oops?

Comments

[choconyo.livejournal.com]

It's really fun to see that there actually are other people who have changed thanks to fictional characters too. It's not something I see very often. :)

Just dropped by to say that I liked reading your answer, thanks for writing it~

[sariagray.livejournal.com]

Thanks for dropping by! :) I think there are many people who do - it just isn't spoken of often. But as fictional characters are meant to mirror life, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to hold them up as role models. :)

[sassysailorgirl.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I do have the habit of asking myself "WWJD?" Y'know, what would Jack do? LOL!