Flutterby™! : Jay & Kevin Smith

I don't have any grand revelations about human character that I've distilled to easily shareable words, but several experiences of the past year or so have taught me, or at least opened up some questions on, a lot of things about free will and decision making. Heck, I don't want to out anybody, but Saturday evening's discussion about "freezing up" and panic was fascinating with some neat insights, which lead interestingly and coincidentally to a potluck and discussion I went to with my parents on Sunday evening where the discussion topic was "fear", nominally in the context of culturally manufactured fear (ie: the Y2K panic, "peak oil", those sorts of things), but the discussion that evening before about resolve and when and how we make our decisions meshed rather well into it.

In that same vein of "I can't sum it up into a few words, but I found myself feeling like I was gaining insight", here are a set of journal entries by Kevin Smith about his relationship with Jason Mewes, aka "Jay" of "Jay and Silent Bob", and Jay's struggle with drug addiction and Kevin's struggle with friendship: Me and my Shadow Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, and Part 9. Not just a good read because it's a heartbreaker that (apparently) ends in redemption, but because I found some insight in Kevin Smith's struggles with when he was being a friend versus when he was being an enabler, and love, and forgiveness.

And, yes, as juvenile as it seems, I will be seeing Clerks 2.