(Ahem)
It’s been awhile huh?
-silence-
This is a little bit of awkward eh? Heh heh.
-silence-
Oh come on Limy, I’m sorry. I am! It’s been…well, you know. I’ve been very busy.
You’ve been busy.
Okay, you know what I mean. Obviously, I wasn’t so busy that I couldn’t have made any time for you, but you know how these things are. The longer you walk, the harder it is to start jogging again.
(Humph)
And also, I was busy: Christmas; New Year’s; a lot of activities happen around that time block you know! Good friends come back for the holidays, and then there were all these holiday parties I had to attend, Indian buffets I had to eat, movies I had to watch, and a new three-hour-long boardgame I had to play; and did I mention that I got sick for like, two and a half weeks and produced more nose mucus than I ever have before in my life? Buckets full. Oh! and then there was this Christmas program I put together and perform, and…
I see. Sounds like you had a chock full o’ fun time. Well, I’m glad that you’ve been alive and well this whole time, blowing out buckets of mucus, attending holiday parties, and playing long boardgames. And there I was, silly old me, starting to wonder after weeks and weeks of isolation and desolate loneliness whether something had happened to you. But no, your fingers weren’t somehow tragically incapacitated by some horrendous freak accident, you just forgot about me.
Oh Limy! How could I forget you? You’re my one and only in this whole world! I created you! You’re like my baby!
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
Oh Limy, all I mean is that I didn’t forget about you.
Oh, so you just consciously ignored me for a whole month.
Well, technically, it’s still one full day short of a whole…month.
You’re joking right? Are you really nit-picking about this with me right now? While I’m in this state? You’re going to SIT there and argue with me about the semantics of whether it’s really been a complete month or not??
Okay, okay, I’m sorry Limy! You’re right. I really am sorry for forgetting about you and getting carried away with my big fun. Will you forgive me?
-silence-
Limy?
Okay fine.
I love you Limy.
Shut up.
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wtf is a limy
You see Haley, for the purpose of this particular post, I have anthropomorphized my blog; this word, “anthropomorphize” means that I have attributed human characteristics to something that is not human–in this case, my blog. I did this so that I could create a fictitious conversation, or dialogue, if you will, between me and my anthropomorphized blog. Given the fact that I wanted to anthropomorphize my blog for the purpose of this fictitious conversation, I then also decided it was only fair to give my blog a real human name. It wouldn’t be very nice to have a conversation with someone who you called “human” would it? And since my blog is entitled Life In My Years and I have never met anyone whose name is as long or as unpoetic (or poetic!) as Life In My Years Zou or Life In My Years Ko, I decided to take the first letters of the four words to make one word: Limy. Although I admit that it is a rather unusual name, I assumed that people would understand through the content and nature of the dialogue and the four chosen letters that happened to correspond with the first four letters of my blog’s title, that Limy stood for the name of my anthropomorphized blog character I was conversing with.
I hope that I have cleared up any confusion you might have had about “wtf”"a limy” was.
oh i was just joking, i know what it meant
seriously.. i would’ve never thought that limy was short for life in my years. LOL… Is anthropomorphism same as personification. coz i learned about personification in my literature class? you should know more than me..
Anthropomorphism is very similar to personification — in fact their definitions are almost exactly the same. The difference is subtle:
Anthropomorphism is straight-forward. I can anthropomorphize any inanimate object, entity or animal — for example, a tiger — by giving it simple, and tangible human characteristics — for example, the ability to talk, make jokes, make sandwiches. In the case of anthropomorphism, I am giving that tiger direct human characteristics to serve no further purpose other than just to have that tiger possess direct human characteristics. Think of Hobbes in Calvin and Hobbes: a walking, talking tiger who likes tuna sandwiches, acts cute, and likes to sneak up and jump on adorable little boys. Anthropomorphism is direct and produces the effect of making non-human entities feel more familiar, more easy to relate to.
Personification is more abstract, not only in its purpose and effect, but also for what types of subjects are given human attributes. Unlike anthropomorphism, personification is used to represent larger concepts. The object or entity is given human characteristics so to serve as an embodiment of a human idea. If anthropomorphism is to be taken literally, personification is to be taken figuratively; attribution of human characteristics to an inanimate entity becomes not the end in itself, but a means to an end — which, in personification’s case, is to express or represent a larger metaphor, or something vague like a metaphor. An example: I describe the moon as if it were a woman, lovely, and mysterious. Unlike anthropomorphism, personification has the effect of placing non-human entities into unfamiliar territory, hopefully allowing people to see things from different perspective, a new light.
hefty…. thanks for the explanation
write some more! I am enjoying your blog more and more.
Helen! I enjoyed this story! And I actually think the name Limy is poetic!
Thank you!
Hm, I had no idea what Limy was short for but I still understood what you were saying. And I think Limy is right.
Hi Helen,
I really like this post! It was quite entertaining to imagine you talking to your blog. You are such a creative one.
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