Our own stories are mysterious

Having gotten to what feels like a secure place in my own estimation personal identity, it is quite nice to not worry about it.

Lately I have seen the use of simile and metaphor in stories that I feel is quite clever. There are likely other literary tools that I don't even know about. I smile at the thought that some of you simply thought you were writing something that appealed to you, or you thought you were just writing out your pain, and along the way some of you have become very skilled at wordsmithing.

In "Twice Removed" I notice the author writing on two levels about finally facing who she was as an alien creature, while I have noticed many humans wrestling with facing who they are in real life as being transgendered is concerned. I've seen snippets of the same phenomena in other writers here but did not have the foresight to make a list while it was still fresh in my mind; pity that.

In my rather casual studies of Psychology and human nature it is clear that huumans often set out to do one thing and accomplish another. At times I am sure that the very heavens laugh at us.

Gwen