He’s definitely a real person. So real that millions can identify with how he was feeling. The fact that he verbalized it so well makes him even more precious. His feelings are real and valid and he deserves love. And millions of others just like him.
TBC that was a reference*, though I warped it a little as I was trying to imply that he isn’t emotionally present (to an extreme degree), not that it’s a fake story or anything like that.
And yes of course everybody deserves love but that’s easier said than done when people are broken. And whatever you’re thinking w/your original comment I could see maybe helping, maybe too uncomfortable for them, or maybe they get emotionally attached in a way that ends up making you uncomfortable. Lots to go wrong and I don’t thing the massage is really the point. They could’ve easily broken down from… any other kind gesture really.
*= full quote: “this man has been re-living the same second for a hundred years. This particular issue is all in his head. But it’s in our heads too. We all share his condition in a way. In scientific probable reality he doesn’t even exist. ARE YOU CONFUSED?” (note from David Firth, a bit weird/morbid animations, but fittingly it’s from the episode called The Unfixable Thought Machine. Though I reference this often, it’s not particularly relevant to the actual thinking of my comment otherwise.)
Just sayin’ anyone who’s suffering and not irreparably broken yet, and can still articulate the feelings and reach out, we need to get together and heal each other.
Just sayin’ anyone who’s suffering and not irreparably broken yet, and can still articulate the feelings and reach out, we need to get together and heal each other.
He’s definitely a real person. So real that millions can identify with how he was feeling. The fact that he verbalized it so well makes him even more precious. His feelings are real and valid and he deserves love. And millions of others just like him.
TBC that was a reference*, though I warped it a little as I was trying to imply that he isn’t emotionally present (to an extreme degree), not that it’s a fake story or anything like that.
And yes of course everybody deserves love but that’s easier said than done when people are broken. And whatever you’re thinking w/your original comment I could see maybe helping, maybe too uncomfortable for them, or maybe they get emotionally attached in a way that ends up making you uncomfortable. Lots to go wrong and I don’t thing the massage is really the point. They could’ve easily broken down from… any other kind gesture really.
*= full quote: “this man has been re-living the same second for a hundred years. This particular issue is all in his head. But it’s in our heads too. We all share his condition in a way. In scientific probable reality he doesn’t even exist. ARE YOU CONFUSED?” (note from David Firth, a bit weird/morbid animations, but fittingly it’s from the episode called The Unfixable Thought Machine. Though I reference this often, it’s not particularly relevant to the actual thinking of my comment otherwise.)
Just sayin’ anyone who’s suffering and not irreparably broken yet, and can still articulate the feelings and reach out, we need to get together and heal each other.
How?
Great question. Metta meditation is a good way to start cultivating one’s own ability to love.
https://youtu.be/rjlSiASsUIs?si=kZuzvFSc8uuIbQRK
Eew that song has always given me the creeps.
On another note, R.I.P. Marvin Gaye, such a tragic end 😞
— Madeline L’Engle