[Catwoman]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

Contessa might find that her life gains more meaning and that the unremarkable moments we experience are actually the richest and most fulfilling, if she would spend a little less time wallowing in narcisisstic fantasy and a little more time trying to make things remarkable for other people. She is unmistakably intelligent and talented, but until she directs those talents away from herself and towards others, she's unlikely to be satisfied with the result. Same applies to love. She's not likely to find a soulmate unless she's first willing to be a soulmate to another person.

Contessa, on an unremarkable Wednesday morning at her unremarkable job, finds some meaning in some words. It is true, she thinks, that I am more concerned with I than any other. Yet in an unfathomable paradox she sees that with her desire for recognition comes an inescapable awareness of others. She wants them to recognise, so she can help. She has the answers to many of their questions, though not yet her own. If only they would listen, she woes, and regrets that she does not use her skills to full effect. Contessa, though determined, lacks motivation, for she feels her efforts - ultimately, in the grand scheme of the universe - will not matter.

Originally Posted by jaguar

mr noodle is religious and therefore best taken with a grain of salt

makes her laugh in it's reflection of her way of thinking, then

Originally Posted by lookout123

Once there was a man who got on a bus in New York....he approached the driver and asked what was causing the hold up. The bus driver responded, "Absolutely nothing is wrong, sir. I'm just waiting for all of the traffic lights between New York and LA to turn green at the same time so we can have a perfect trip with no interruptions."

strikes a chord because it is true, and Contessa takes some comfort that she could be remarkable by helping just one person, one day at a time. But Contessa is notoriously impatient and intolerant, and when she sees a better more expedious way of doing things she simply cannot force herself to go the long way round, taking into account that

Originally Posted by glatt

when a person does a good deed, they feel good about themselves for a little while afterwards. Then it wears off.

It may take me 10 years to find the right path, she thinks, but at least then I won't get lost. Perfection is important to her like nothing else.

Originally Posted by glatt

When you are young and vibrant, you feel like you can conquer the world. As you age, you tend to mellow out

Contessa, despite her young years, knows this is true for most people. And somewhere, beneath her conditioning and desires, she can just glimpse this as her own future. But she is very aware that just because this passion is dulled in the most talented of people, she does not want hers to disappear in a vacuum of realism, out of concern that people will find her arrogant or unreasonable. She will not, she resolves, hide herself for fear of offending. If the world is conquerable - she thinks, in the most metaphorical terms - I know the woman for the job.

Originally Posted by jaguar

Being an astronaut or a rock star isn't about the fame, it's about kicking ass, being the best and knowing it. Internal, not external.

There's nothing quite like overcoming an obstacle - a tricky sequence on the guitar, communicating something important - and even more satisfying than this, is the awareness that with application and concentration, Contessa can 'kick ass' at nearly anything.

In sudden remembrance of how her words will be taken, Contessa adds to her monologue that not only is she capable of anything, so is everyone, and that they simply lack the vision or encouragement or awareness to know it.

Originally Posted by warch

Contessa needs a kick in the ass, a true life crisis to shock her into the here and now. She's hollow. Or, she should hire a PR firm to craft her remarkably empty image campaign to be released upon her death. She'll never have enough proof of her own worth. That's a shame.

At this Contessa pops out of her story, her stomach tight.

Originally Posted by Catwoman

That was well expressed. Blunt with no sympathy. I like it.

Is it true? 'Image campaign' - yes, that's what it is I suppose. 'Never enough proof of her own worth'... maybe; depends if I ever get my ass into gear. 'She's hollow' - that might be true, although I know it's not, ultimately, from the depth of feeling I have for people, especially those who suffer. I hope I don't need the usual 'life crisis' to spur me on, that would be hopelessly predictable.

Contessa returns slightly abated but frustrated that the core of her point is being missed. It is not for some meaningless image, fame for fame's sake or suppressed insecurity and desire for mass adoration. In fact the thought of this makes her uncomfortable. She doesn't want people to get it wrong, to think she's better than she is and put her on a pedestal. She aint no hollow rock star.

What Contessa wants most strongly in this world, and what she believes to be her purpose, is to be in a position where she is listened to, because she knows she gets it right. If there is anyone else who can do it as well, or better, she would rather it was them. This is not selfish desire for recognition, she realises, but frustration at the workings of a world run by fools. I know what to do! I could make the right decisions! So put ME in the position to do it and the world will breath an enormous sigh of relief.

All I want is rightness and truth. Whoever initiates it, all I want, is for things to be put right.