the honor's all mine

When I was a kid and my mum took me out gallivanting, she sometimes bumped into ex-pals and ex-classmates. The exclamation of choice was always, "It's a small world after all!" And I would snigger. I thought such a notion was parochial and small-town. I didn't believe we were really all that connected. I simply believed we lived within isolated circles of friends, and that if you had maybe, 3 circles you would be the only common thread amongst all 3. So then, it was completely possible to assume different personas with different groups of people, and I mean radically different.

This has changed over the growing years, and I've been proven wrong time and again, and it's always been a pleasant surprise to discover overlaps.

A connected matter is that recently I've been mentally pre-occupied with sociopaths and self-validating internal worlds. Last night I watched Shattered Glass, and it gave me a portrayal of the effects of an individual who managed to create an internal reality and successfully projected it out onto the world. This doesn't just refer to his fabrication of news, but also to his personality and identity. Stephen Glass, the journliast, eventually got caught fabricating stories. Anyway I've been quite intrigued with Glass, and found out that he attended Penn! I know I know, thousands of people enter Penn every year. But hello, there're hundreds of colleges out there, thousands of publicized scandals, hundreds of movies, and I had to find a movie that a) I related to, b) was based on a true story, and c) had a protagonist who attended my school.

Amazing right? So anyway I looked up Penn's alumni, and stumbled upon some childhood heros of mine: Noam Chomsky, John Legend, and Stephen Glass!

Yeah great opening paragraph and discussion, but I really just wanted to state this coincidence.