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"When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness." ~ D.H. Lawrence "Is the meaning of life defined by its duration? Or does life have a purpose so large that it doesn't have to be prolonged at any cost to preserve its meaning?" "Living is not good, but living well. The wise man, therefore, lives as well as he should, not as long as he can... He will always think of life in terms of quality not quantity... Dying early or late is of no relevance, dying well or ill is... even if it is true that while there is life there is hope, life is not to be bought at any cost." ~ Seneca "People will tell you nothing matters, the whole world's about to end soon anyway. Those people are looking at life the wrong way. I mean, things don't need to last forever to be perfect." ~ Daydream Nation "All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories-- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death." ~ The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes "The road now stretched across open country, and it occurred to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road." ~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." ~ William Blake Think about it Musicalities! Kill that boredom!
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Jhonen Vasquez's site Overheard in New York Passive Aggressive Notes Submarinechannel.com Superdickery UHpinions Whirled | Slipped away earlier Monday, June 19, 2017 "Sunshine" by Jonathan Coulton. The color of a sky, the shape of a kiss Everything I have and not what I miss All this time the world was waiting for this All the rest have slipped away Just me and the wall I won't last another day And here where I fall Marks the end of a great big beautiful thing And who will see (such a short ride) There's no one left who can remember me (down a steep slide) But today is mine (on the outside) Here in the sunshine --- Me: I don't feel... much of anything Me: Maybe slightly dissociated RD: Ha, didnt think so.. Me: I get a feeling kind of a lot like I'm just not really here RD: I wanna be there in whatever way i can for stuff like this but im so far... RD: Yea youve mentioned this before RD: Whos been in my head for so many weeks then RD: Youre here Me: At times like this I often scroll through my unnecessarily large collection of selfies in an attempt to connect with the pictures Me: It's weird, haha Me: As if I could stay in my body if I just memorized how it looked well enough RD: Do you think people can usually connect with pics of themselves? Me: I don't know Me: Nobody really talks about it to me Me: I don't know what it's like for other people when they look in mirrors RD: I dont think i do RD: Do you try to connect with your reflection too? Me: Yeah Me: I just look at it a lot RD: Is it a feeling of missing something? Me: It's... Me: A... lack of familiarity? RD: Does this feel like clarity? Me: Does what feel like clarity RD: How you feel RD: Like youve been swept up in the fiction RD: And suddey you jolt back to clarity Me: No Me: This is like floating inside a cloud where I can't really see anything Me: But not having a body Me: I'm looking at my hands and they're typing to you but they seem so far away RD: Huh... RD: Im trying to get that feel too RD: Now im... a little somber Me: I don't think I'm much fun tonight, haha RD: I dont mind if youre not 'fun' RD: This is part of you RD: And i want to experie ce it Me: Yeah I just... sometimes I kind of float away and I need to anchor myself to my body RD: It sounds like you get yanked into a kind of ethereal state. Me: It's a sort of being-out-of-the-world --- I briefly felt dissociated earlier tonight, but I did some stuff to ground myself and I ended up feeling better. Focused on how my body was feeling in the present moment and danced around to music and took my vitamins and drank some water and watched some videos of my friend that made me smile. I'm not sure, but I think it only lasted for an hour and a half or so. Being like that, it was like the color drained out of everything and I was tired and nothing was funny or pleasant anymore and I wasn't there, I wasn't anywhere, there wasn't a me. Just some slowly spreading silent cloud of static eating everything around me. I could see my arms and my legs and my body but it wasn't really my body, it was just a body and it was there, and whatever it was doing was just incidental and had nothing to do with me, because there was no me. Just observing without existing. I managed to snap myself out of it very quickly this time, though. Sometimes it's harder. Sometimes I get that way and I don't have the motivation to try to get out of it. And then I don't feel anything for people and I just kind of operate in accordance with the values that I've stacked up for myself over the years, even though they don't mean anything to me in that state. Just going through the motions of trying to be a good person. And nothing matters, but I do it anyway because the alternative would be doing nothing or doing something bad and I guess I do have some slight feeling of obligation to the future self who's going to come into this body and is going to feel things and want things again at some point. We really do feel like different people. The nothing self is just a steward for the body, waiting for the self with substance to come back and do things and make things work. It's all about the waiting and the maintenance in the meantime. Can't let things fall into disrepair. I'm lucky that I have a solid autopilot setting. This state is the state I can't trust my instincts in, because everything I feel is whispering the worst things to me about how people are going to turn on me and betray me and nobody actually cares about me and Bad Things Are Going To Happen, Just You Wait. I have to repeat what I know factually, technically, back to myself, and it doesn't feel real but I know I have to take it seriously, more seriously than those malicious feelings. And even though there's the problem of induction and I can't really know for certain that things in the future will follow the patterns of the past, I have to remind myself that the people I know have never shown any indicators of doing the things I'm suddenly afraid of them doing, and that the fears don't have much to stand on. I have to force myself to stop conflating "they're capable of this" with "they will do this." For this situation I hesitantly place my faith in the uniformity of nature, if you can call it that. I have a silly habit of taking concepts from natural sciences and applying them to social sciences. People aren't atoms bound to certain behaviors and patterns. We do fall into habits and routines, but they're flexible. There's always some degree of choice in what we do. I guess importing these concepts just helps me organize the framework of my understanding. Not everything translates perfectly, but nothing is ever perfectly analogous anyway. I definitely disregard the uniformity concept when it's convenient, such as when I'm pushing myself to try despite past failures. I frequently have feelings of "I'm never going to have a healthy relationship, all my past relationships were bad and it's only going to stay that way or get worse, and I'll probably end up with someone who beats me to death." That train of thought is always there, but I keep trying and keep pushing forward anyway because I don't want to close off my heart to protect myself from getting hurt. Need to be vulnerable and open to connect with people, and at least for now, I still care more about connecting than I do about getting hurt. I'm sure I've written about his before, but I don't know when the last post was. It's hard, but I'm really trying to just keep my world from closing in on itself. I don't want to live within a maze of self-imposed limitations. Always trying to keep things open and expand my opportunities in the future. (Not in the sense that I'd have one foot out the door in a relationship, though... just trying to maintain options to be a better self) I started doing laundry halfway through this entry and I never write an outline for any of these, I just write whatever comes to mind and don't edit and then post it, so I don't remember if I was originally trying to make a point here. Maybe I just wanted to talk about what was going on and then conclude it with something more productive and determined. That seems about right. 1 Comments. I thought I commented on your page but it was zanzibar. I'm really embarrassed now. It's been awhile since I been on here. Damn I'm a dork. Anyways thanks for the comment. I hope you're doing okay. Disassociation isn't fun. I've experienced it in the past when I've been depressed and can relate with a lot of what you wrote. Stay strong and talk with people you care about I guess. I think that helped me? » dont-see on 2017-06-21 01:33:09
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