"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense" -Frank Lloyd Wright

when i was reading the part at first about holden and sally, i was a little disgusted at holden, to be honest. i could really not comprehend how he could just go and ask some girl that he though was a total fake, to go and ask her to be with him, when he didn't really like her that much at all. sure, she looked alright, but other than that? come on. i was dissapointed in his lack of common sense.

and then!
i found that common sense was not so common after all.

i had a revalation, that i had been acting just as holden had been. what was even better, was that I hadn't caught myself, just like HE hadn't. and here is my explanation of why i find that holden acted as he did, based on why i acted as i did. holden [i] was afraid. afraid of feeling lonely and left behind. he [i] though he [i] saw something in a girl [boy], and automatically assumed the best, which is slightly uncharacteristic of holden [myself]. fear is interesting and ridiculous at the same time; it drives us to do things we never though we could (or sometimes, in retrospect, should) have done. but i'm kind of glad sally didn't want to go with him, because i think she only would've held him back. they aren't the same type of people, and i think he's better off for it (not like he's crying over it, either.) but i just thought it was interesting what fear could drive a person to do, or forget.