Two things about myself: I'm optimistic and I like dark humor
So when I look back through my own lj archives and I see myself making an optimistic prediction (i.e. if i work really hard on this assignment, i will finish it on time and to my satisfication) and I now know that this did not come true, I laugh. The narrative view makes me feel better, it makes the bad things in my life seem more like the bad but funny things that happen to sitcom character or in webcomics. If I were taking a strict theory/analytical approach, those entries would feel doubly horrible because not only did something bad happen but I also failed to make the correct prediction. Of course, there are other ways of narrativising human experience and your own personal experience that wouldn't work so well. Hmm...
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I'm optimistic
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I like dark humor
So when I look back through my own lj archives and I see myself making an optimistic prediction (i.e. if i work really hard on this assignment, i will finish it on time and to my satisfication) and I now know that this did not come true, I laugh. The narrative view makes me feel better, it makes the bad things in my life seem more like the bad but funny things that happen to sitcom character or in webcomics. If I were taking a strict theory/analytical approach, those entries would feel doubly horrible because not only did something bad happen but I also failed to make the correct prediction. Of course, there are other ways of narrativising human experience and your own personal experience that wouldn't work so well. Hmm...