People are just great...

People make me smile for some reason.

I was talking to a friend about "Lost" - the thrilling television show on Wednesdays at 8 on ABC, and I realized the reason I like Lost so much is because you get to see how people interact with one another with only limited knowledge about each other (ahem... real life), but you get to see the backstory behind each of those people. How does someone from this background interact with someone from that background? How do people judge, misjudge each other, find common ground or ways to disagree?

Sure - that's kind of basic to narrative in general, but the reason to watch Lost is to try to "figure things out" - where are they, what is happening to them, etc... So those elements of interaction are so much more richly drawn than your typical hour drama on television. There is a lot going on, little if anything is filler - much more like real life. After all, what narrative is deeper than that?

I'm kind of linking that perspective to real life. So many people you interact with on a daily basis... What's driving them? What's their story? I like to keep my story as open as possible for curious onlookers. I feel strangely at home that way. It lets me focus more on other people in my day-to-day life. I detest mystery, while accepting it as a fact of life. The more I can understand, the happier that I am. (I'm not alone in that, just making an observation...)

So I know it sounds strange, but I'm definitely in an "I like people" mood right now. Also, my brain is kind of twisted up right now so if this post didn't make much sense, perhaps I'll delete it when I regain my mental footing.