The blog editor/author is putting the last three days of first person narratives into perspective in today’s post. Or so it is hoped.
The personal story shared wrapped up the most recent chapter with some harsh words about someone who had wronged him, but not seemingly as severe as the others earlier, yet the most severe comments seemed leveled against Larry Schmitz. Is the narrator a bit mentally unbalanced after all, it might be assumed.
I want to assure my readers that he is no more unbalanced than the average person you meet on the street. And though his charges seem harsh at the end, they aren’t when put into the context the narrator is coming from.
What most of us don’t think about or realise is how many of our seemingly innocuous acts are quite destructive, without the many little intervening actions and corrections that change their course. And the narrator has had most of his intervening actions, those from outside, and many from inside, removed or blocked. So those “innocent” moves of Larry’s are very destructive until he does the rescue work himself. He is merely trying to get that emphasis across. If he doesn’t emphasive no one will see it, and if he does, almost no one believes it. A losing proposition, it seems, but he still plays the game of life and refuses to quit.
At The Rainbow 