Copy of It Is Very Difficult To Write About People
It is very difficult to write about people.
It is very easy to write about objects. Objects are consistent. They don’t change the way they look, unless you change them. They stay where you last saw them, or where you last put them down. They have a purpose, and when they don’t serve that purpose, they’re not good to use anymore. They don’t pick up and look for a new purpose, a different spot, a new look. Unless you want them to.
It is very easy to write about places. You can write about the objects found in the place, on the place, near the place. Places may stay in the same location, but unlike objects, they change every day. They are changed by trespassers. Trespassers may make the place their own, and may change whatever they want, but it’s okay because the place is still in the same place. It still has the same buildings, streets, furniture, floors. Places can hold their place. They don’t pick up and move elsewhere. Unless you move them.
It is very easy to write about nature. Nature like weather, the sea and the sky and the sun, and night and day. But nature is not like objects or like places. It is messy and just when you think you know it, it surprises you. But messiness is also nature’s best quality. It doesn’t find order because it doesn’t need to. Nature goes the way life takes it. It doesn’t need plans or goals or destinations. But it has its own ways of coming back to the same places, its cycles. That is why it lets things be messy, because its messy cycles, no matter how messy, don’t change. Unless you change them.
But people are difficult to write about. They are not like objects, or places, or nature. They are always looking for new purposes. They will pick up and move because they feel like it, and won’t always come back to the same places. They will change their minds constantly, flinching at any sound, sight, or touch around them. People are very difficult to write about. They are not like anything we’ve ever seen before.
In fact, they are not even much like each other.
