July 14th, 2008
The Way She Feels
Is there a feeling you have tried to hold forever? I heard about a girl who unraveled an affair to find nothing left but a convoluted thread of her own romantic fantasies. So she gripped to it even tighter.
Transcriptorial: at last she can seal it in / now no one will ever change / the way she felt back then
there is no forever.
Everytime I feel other than sad I try to hold onto the feeling for as long as I can. Especially the feeling of opportunities, chances and hope.
i do that too, Louie. It’s too bad that those other feelings are so far apart.
Sadness can be full of valuable lessons. If you are sensitive enough to feel sad, you have the potential to grow angry enough to change things. If you can feel sad about betrayal, injustice or loss, you have within the tools to create trust, fidelity, fairness and generosity. Those who lack these tools seldom feel loss because they float on the surface of life.
What if you feel sad because life doesn’t seem to be about anything?
Why do emotions need to have a point?
They’re so delectable, I can’t get enough of them.
Anything is empty than the empty barren of apathy and boredom.
I don’t need them to teach me anything.
I just need them to show up.
Life is a transition.
To hold on to something is to be left behind.
You know what’s wrong with your web comic? I think half of them are about me!
At least you don’t think all of them are!
I find it impossible to hold onto anything forever. No one feels one thing forever, and memories get corrupted more and more every time you look back on them. I’d rather just forget entirely.
why would you want to forget a feeling that at one point made you whole? wouldnt there be some flicker of emptiness associated with an abandoned memory? a shadow of something no longer there? even if a memory is warped, it is still the key to some previous happiness.
Though no outside influence may change her feelings about that moment, her own analysis of it may change with time. ‘Sealing’ it may deprive her of control of that change - and will deprive her of the ability to share it.
Counterproductive. Unlock the bubble before it collapses.
when I get feelings of fulfillment. Or when I feel really close to God. Those are the feelings that I want to last forever. And the feeling of contentment, of knowing things will be okay. The worry-less feeling.