Have you ever been accused of not being serious enough? Have been asked to shut up because you talk too much? I have. And I really didn't like it.
People often talk about complex, well-rounded characters in fiction. What is special about these characters is that they are licensed to look grumpy and unpleasant all the time. And no one says "Hey grumpy, care to smile?" We are supposed to assume that they have lots of "depth" to be laughing like a normal person. Why, they are the intellectuals. Yes, we do have happy complex characters in fiction but the gloomy, brooding and complex hero cliché has gone too far in teen fiction. The happy characters are always the best friends or jokers. And in the reviews they are called as flat as pancakes. So, today in defense of all the happy, cheery and talkative characters in fiction, I write this post.
In the real life, everyone is complex. Everyone has a history, a personality and a mind. But only a few are described as "complex" and "deep". And what's more? They are taken more seriously in every sphere of life. Unfair. Simply because all of us are not capable of mustering up a serious expression and an apparent zen-like air, we are instantly the "shallow" ones. Many of us have the grace of an overgrown baby and do silly things. We have goofy grins and loud laughs. So, forget being perceived as deep and complex, we are described something along the lines of "litter of puppies". Sadly, these individuals are not taken as seriously as their poker faced counterparts. The "complex intellectual" puffs away on a cigarette, looking away into space, looking like they are too busy deciphering the mysteries of the universe to bother to talk to you. The clichéd brooding artist or the rebellious rock star with a painful past (Seriously, clichés bring bile to my throat). But the goofier lot are thought to be stumbling, bumbling idiots.
So, I hope that the whole of human race develop better skills of judging a person. Who knows, the stumbling goof maybe too busy thinking of various things to be watching where he is walking?
People often talk about complex, well-rounded characters in fiction. What is special about these characters is that they are licensed to look grumpy and unpleasant all the time. And no one says "Hey grumpy, care to smile?" We are supposed to assume that they have lots of "depth" to be laughing like a normal person. Why, they are the intellectuals. Yes, we do have happy complex characters in fiction but the gloomy, brooding and complex hero cliché has gone too far in teen fiction. The happy characters are always the best friends or jokers. And in the reviews they are called as flat as pancakes. So, today in defense of all the happy, cheery and talkative characters in fiction, I write this post.
In the real life, everyone is complex. Everyone has a history, a personality and a mind. But only a few are described as "complex" and "deep". And what's more? They are taken more seriously in every sphere of life. Unfair. Simply because all of us are not capable of mustering up a serious expression and an apparent zen-like air, we are instantly the "shallow" ones. Many of us have the grace of an overgrown baby and do silly things. We have goofy grins and loud laughs. So, forget being perceived as deep and complex, we are described something along the lines of "litter of puppies". Sadly, these individuals are not taken as seriously as their poker faced counterparts. The "complex intellectual" puffs away on a cigarette, looking away into space, looking like they are too busy deciphering the mysteries of the universe to bother to talk to you. The clichéd brooding artist or the rebellious rock star with a painful past (Seriously, clichés bring bile to my throat). But the goofier lot are thought to be stumbling, bumbling idiots.
So, I hope that the whole of human race develop better skills of judging a person. Who knows, the stumbling goof maybe too busy thinking of various things to be watching where he is walking?
