#shower-thoughts

The funny thing about media is that it often feels less interactive than it should. Books bring the brain fully to bear to grasp the character, locations, events, and thousands of details into something coherent.

Film and television do most of the heavy lifting for you with a version created to show what the creative is trying to say with their art.

Video games though have a magic to them that is hard to surpass. All the visual splendor and details you can imagine, but with the voicing and choices in your hands to deal with. It is magic that we an tell stories in such a manner.

It got me thinking - what if our friendships were like a garden that we shared with other? After all, each friendship is as unique as the people in it. The metaphor captures the fragility, and imperfections of relationships - sometimes plants don't grow, grow poorly, or die for reasons not entirely obvious to us. For reasons that elude us, plants take longer to flower, or bear fruit. Sometimes we learn that we weren't tending to the plant in the manner required, and the flower blooms as soon as we do. Occasionally our gardens grow in unexpected ways, seeds that we'd thought long gone sprouting in the oddest of places.