To Each His Own Soap Opera

Maybe people only say they want to forget, but they don't really mean it, because somewhere inside them they know that these stories are worth carrying around with them; these stories changed them and molded them; these stories made them experience what life is--scars, bloodshed, alien encounters, imaginary friends and all. So these are stories that they want to keep, no matter how scary or exhilarating or painful, because they know these are stories worth telling someday.

Yeah.

People always weave unpublished biographies of their lives in their heads, with threads from their ideas, internal battles, and experiences. They always have something to tell, some unaired soap opera playing in their minds. Some choose to share their stories; others choose to make their silence a part of their stories. In any case, there's always that constant, intangible, inner drama. Everyone is somehow aware of it, and they dote on it, build it. Even the silent. Even the shy. Even the boring.

Even me.