• insomniac_lemon
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    1 year ago

    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.)

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      but that’s easier said that done

      Love is not something you feel, it is something you do.

      — Madeline L’Engle