Posted on: August 24, 2009 - 5:12 am

Yesterday a friend of mine dropped by for tea, it started with just that then it went in to a long winded conversation which ended post dinner.

We exchanged news and talked about our experiences in the city and then I said the thing that would take about three hours to get around.

I just said - that as filmmakers we live a strange paradigm where we are supposed to have an almost extra sensory sensitivity that helps us tell our stories with some insight. But post making them, we are expected to suddenly grow rhinoceros hides and become immune to all comment and outcomes. And so what does one do.

His answer was - “you know you need a shrink”.  And because I must have looked shocked, he tempered it and said - “Everyone does - everyone needs a shrink”.  I really laughed but I was intrigued.

I guess we all have the self image of being super normal,  and me especially, I feel like I am the most normal, balanced individual I know, so I asked him why he thought I needed a shrink.

Well he seems to think that I create conflicts, paradigms, arguments to and for and then set about solving them. And for solving these imaginary issues,I should hire a shrink. He said it laughing and I am sure it was half jest but we argued all the same and laughed some more.

But it got me thinking, perhaps it isn’t as convoluted and hard as we make it. May be it’s just something more simple than it seems.  If we locked the door on all the mountains of paradigms would we go forward with more clarity or would it make us more stupid?

Hmmmmm…..