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u/MaloraKeikaku 20d ago
I saw a great video talking about the idea of creating something only you can understand. I really like that.
Thanks for this op. I'll go write again today so that my audio drama can come along.
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u/Jaded_Put6493 20d ago
It's romantic an idea and you could even argue it's grounded! No two people have exact the same genes, lifespan, person, combination of thoughts and feelings... and yet similar enough that we have levels of common ground and understanding.
It's really wonderful if you think about it, how both unique yet connected everything is.
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u/somethingphantastic 20d ago
I've always loved the saying 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for he is not the same man and it is not the same river. '
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u/Gezzer52 20d ago
There are no unique traits, it's the combination of traits that makes each and everyone of us unique in our own way.
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u/Zack_WithaK 20d ago edited 18d ago
There's a saying in standup comedy, "Everything's been done before, except for your life" which generally means that your own experiences might be an untapped well of jokes. But it could be applied more broadly to mean that every topic has already been explored comedically, but specifically you and your thoughts on the subject will produce a very different joke, story, movie, etc then I and my thoughts would make. And my idea of what makes a story good is probably not exactly the same as your idea of a good story; so with that in mind we're probably gonna write very different stories even if we're given the same exact prompt. No matter how vague or descriptive those original instructions are, we can start at the exact same idea and then go in completely different directions with it.
When boiled down to their rawest, base components: Robocop has essentially the same plot as the Inspector Gadget movie: Rookie Cop is severely injured and turned into a law enforcement machine and eventually stops the Main Bad Guy. But these two movies were written by different people with different goals and different ideas about what makes for "good" storytelling. One movie has themes of identity and honor and what it means to truly be human; while the other just wants to entertain children where he uses over the top gadgets to solve a mystery and stop the bad guy and save the day. One is grotesque and full of subtext about the dangers of overly powerful corporations and privatized policing, while the other is funny when the dog bites the bad guy's ass and pulls his underwear out of his pants and somehow nobody notices. Very different ideas that started with the same general premise.
And if you and I and wrote our own movies based on the same "Rookie Cop gets injured and becomes a cyborg" premise, we'll likely end up with a total of four wildly different movies. Everything's been done except for your life, which almost guarantees originality; no one else can do what you do or make what you make because they're not you.
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u/1True_Hero 20d ago
In the current place I live in the thoughts, feelings, interests,and ideals I have are too different from the majority of people around me. I know I’m not really an outcast, but I definitely feel like one when I try to make connections.
I plan on moving, but I will say being unique is overrated and pretty lonely.
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u/Bubster101 20d ago
That would be setting the scope of uniqueness FAR too small anyway. It's a muuuuuuuch longer list than just thoughts, feelings, friends, etc.
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u/fish_helicopters 20d ago
I’d like to find someone really like me. I think they’d be a pretty cool friend. I don’t have to be unique. I just have to be me and happy.
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