"But I can warn them about it" She said, after I had explained, "Or at least warn their parents and they can warn their parents".
I agreed, "Yes, you can, and that's completely up to you, but you're not going to be able to warn everyone, even if you do nothing else for the rest of your life except warn people you're never going to reach everyone. Does that matter?"
"Of course it matters, but what about my family, I should save them if I can and if YOU want to save everyone else why don't YOU warn them, even if you can't stop the rock!"
"I don't want to save everyone, or anyone, in fact. I don't want them to die. I think it's easier if I just explain that I don't want. Anything. I'm observing, experiencing, understanding, working out, guessing, making it up as I go along. But there are rules I've put in place to make all of this hang together. I CAN DO anything I want to, but once I start fiddling with the basics I met as well not bother. I mean what's the point, if you're just going to cheat?" I only said some of this out loud, I didn't want her thinking I'm capricious, because I'm not but she was in an anxious state and I didn't want to make her feel neglected."
Popular stories are often re-imagined for a modern audience. But what you may not realize is that some re-imagined stories have replaced the original so completely that only the re-imagination is left. Normally you take a mythical story and re-shape the events to ground them in reality and there’s nothing wrong with the version you know. The story I’m going to tell you was already told and became mythical, losing its grounding in reality. But this is the grounded and original version.
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