Why Write

I don't often read my own writing, not because I'm embarrassed about it or that I feel that it can't be improved upon, but because I agree with myself way too much. If I read some of my own stuff I end up falling in love with me. The world already has one Narcissus it doesn't need a Mike as well. I mean if I read myself I often nod my head and agree with myself.
"There's a well written man" I'll think
or
"I've never heard anyone put things quite like that guy, he must be a genius" I'll say to myself and then act pleasantly surprised when I find out that I wrote such golden things.

Needless to say whenever I've met me I've found him to be stuck up and full of himself. I think that he could do with some humble pie and a sense of fashion.

On an unrelated note here's a thought that popped into my head that won't go away for until it's out. Once out then I hope that daylight kills it:

Heath Ledger died of being the Joker.

Now that that's out of the way let me explain from movie logic which as we all know fails at most things.

First when one plays a character well one becomes that character. The two of you are one. Lenard Nemoy famously tried to distance himself from the character of Spock and even wrote a book about it entitled "I am not Spock" However later in life he revised that statement and wrote another book "I am Spock" and talked about how playing that character changed his life.

And we all know that Heath Ledger is the "best" joker ever. Another movie had the plot suggest that a man who played as a Nazi leader ended up being a big inspiration for some German people and inspired more destruction than he stopped as he worked as a spy for the Allies. So if Heath Ledger became the Joker here's his dilema.

There is no Batman.

In a world where there is no Batman there is no need for a joker. The joker similar to other villains is the boundary where the hero ends and Evil begins. Superheros and their villains are remarkably similar.

Both work outside the systems of law that they live in. They wear flashy costumes. They have abilities that are outside the norm. They are loved or hated in droves and are obsessed with some ideas in the hero's case often justice, truth, the american way, or some other idea while the villain is obsessed often with remaking thing in their own image, cleansing or purifying the world or revenge.

Back to the idea. Our joker lived in a world without his counterpart. This plays well into many movie themes that often the world that a person lives in produces a particular person. A world without dramatic heroes needs not a dramatic villain. So an actor who became a dramatic villian in a world that can not support such a thing died because there was no batman to thwart no world to burn, just a washout of the color that is the heroic universe.

Seeing as I didn't know the man personally nor do I know much about sleeping medication, or for that matter drugs in general I want to label his death as accident. However the notion of a Joker who has no batman to live up to taking his own life just seemed to play over and over in my head so I let it out so that it too may die.

Which leads me to my title of why write, or for that matter create. I think that we create things so that there is a brilliance of color to life, especially for the fund managers, the salespeople, the librarians and other whose normal lives wouldn't let them be around such things as heroes, and monsters.

Games hold appeal because we can be superlative and unique instead of one of the masses. We write, we create and we tell stories because not to do so is bland.

Though I did hear about an Icelandic Fisherman who killed a shark with only a knife, when he decided that such a thing was dangerous to people in the area. What a hero!