Oh. Hi. Didn't see me standing there, huh? No problem, happens all the time. Really. It's just how people see me. Or not, I guess.
Okay, example. Picture a delicate maiden. Take your pick, movie, romance novel, whatever. Okay, she swoons. Fast-forward a bit... she's now having cool cloths put lovingly upon her forehead by the hero. Okay... who brought the cloths and cold water?
Nuh-uh, the hero has no clue about where to get that kind of stuff... pan the room. See anyone? Wait... right... there! See her?
_No_, that's not a set of curtains. That is the Faithful Servant. As invisible as the most perfect of butlers or waiters, always there to serve, practical to a fault. Listens. Makes other people feel big and important. Me in another life.
Yeah, well, it's not like you ever hear a guy say, "_Man_, look at the _personality_ on _that_ one!" Practical and dependable do not show up on most guys' top ten lists (do they even _get_ past five?) One guy once said I'd make a good second wife... or someone's nanny. Someone before the mid-life crisis kicks in. Practical... hard to do the romantic stuff with a practical girl... she'll always have a coat when it's cold outside. Doesn't mean that she can't be _romantic_. You just have to work a bit harder.
Different guy told me girls just want to be rescued. The whole knight and white charger thing. Practical girls don't need to be 'rescued' usually. If they get into trouble, it's doubtful that anyone would help... everyone else will just be in shock that the rock of stability has cracked a bit.
I've been told I'm a complex person to understand. And simple to understand by someone else. They both said that anyone who thinks different doesn't really know me. *rolls eyes* Tell ya what, I'm just me. Little quiet invisible me.
Quit laughing! I am too that way.... *sips at her drink*
Think about the quiet ones that are always there to do the stuff that needs to be done. Always thinking of others before themselves, getting the occasional word (and I mean single solitary word) of thanks... before it all gets to be too much for them and they snap. Front page news usually. That old quote, "It's Always the quiet ones..." *sigh* If life was a horror movie, they'd have a fifty-fifty chance of being the killer or dead.
Hey, that's better than some people's chances... wearing high heels is definitely a 75% chance of death. That's why the practical ones are done in inside a house, you know. *wriggles a foot* See these? You chase a practical girl outside and she'll leave you in the dust since she wears flats or, even better, sneakers. Worst you can hope for is a gopher hole or that she has weak ankles. No hope of the irony that fashion has brought the fashion beauty down.... You have to get the practical girl in a structure, trap her, though it'll be hard since she tends to be slightly paranoid. But on the killer's side is that she is often alone.
Okay, so I'm getting off topic... again. But come on, she's the sidekick. If she had charisma and stuff like that, she'd be the hero. If she had ambition, she'd be the power behind the throne. Instead she's just... there. She's the best friend, the one the main character tells everything to (and thus dies since she knows too much but it gives the hero something to mourn over and avenge). She's the friend that's a girl who gracefully steps aside that her best guy friend can date the beauty that has ignored him for so long... good sappy movie rules call that the beauty melt for the guy friend but he realizes that he really loves the sidekick. Happy ending... yeah right. Real life rules say that the guy is clueless. If the beauty falls for him, they'll be the happy ever after. If not, he'll just go back to the sidekick to moan and prepare for the next beautiful girl.
No, I think Billy got it right that all the life is a stage. The thing is that not everyone is _on_ the stage. Some people are behind the scenes, making sure that everything else is running smoothly. They do things because it had to be done. And they do it without getting the applause. (Though it'd be nice to get some). They are the ones that get things done while everyone else is arguing over who has to do it. And when no one is watching, they step out onto the darkened stage and take their bow.
Okay, so maybe they _do_ do something else... they're the audience too. Come on, who else is watching everyone else? Nah, He's the producer/director. He doesn't have to watch, He knows the script.
Haven't you ever just _watched_ people? They're just so... people! *another sip* Drunk or sober, sometimes it's just so interesting watching them.... You never know what they're going to do or say... and other times they keep repeating the same things over and over like a broken record.
Oh, I come for the company. Yeah, they may not notice I'm there or even care if I'm gone but I need that being around others. Plus good music is hard to find.
*laugh* Do you _see_ me dancing? Sides, no way I could move like I do in my mind. My eyes may be open but I'm probably not home. Just me and the music.
Yeah... give me a heavy back beat and I'm off somewhere else. An enchantress throwing balls of light and energy, an angel raising a hand to heaven whether in supplication or to call down lightning. Every beat is a blow of a sword on mine, returned until my arms ache with the effort. A dance with a demon across a floor of knives to a beat that is a waltz on caffeine. A look, a mysterious smile that breaks the fourth wall of the universe, exchanging a laugh with the Cosmic Author that put all of this together. I reach the heights, elemental movement in every gesture...
...till I open my eyes again and I'm still holding up the wall.
Well, thanks for listening. Hope you weren't bored too much. Oh, you want to talk? Sounds good to me... I listen well. What's on your mind?
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