“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
This mere chaotic peace between wanting to be the greatest and wanting to rot in the room all alone for the rest of eternity.
Half of them want to be free
Half of them want to stay in their cage
Thing is
You can't leave the door open halfway
.
And you can't take the sound of them
Banging on the bars
Shrieking to be loosed
And you can't look them in the eye
Or you'll go insane
.
Feelings are feral things
Half of them want to be free
Half of them want to stay in their cage
Thing is
You can't open the door halfway
.
You can visit them sometimes
The pieces of you that live in a zoo
Just remember -- don't feed the animals
And never give the tiger the key.
Don’t touch me if you don’t mean it.
The War Boys (2009)
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Why do humans need companionship?
Why can't be satisfied by being alone with ourselves?
Humans are known to be social beings,and no matter how much we may love our alone-time,we will always choose,with such alacrity even,to spend some of our time with someone whom we deem worthy of being around us.
It is an inexorable truth,which no matter how strongly you are opposed to,will show itself to you some time or another.
It is surely up to you whether to understand it or not,but there will come a time when your good intentions aimed at protecting yourself will backlash.
At that point in time there will be no one to turn to,all your choices will pour down on you and you will see no path ahead of you.
After realizing what companionship means to you,everything will become undeniably stressful.
Is it because of fear?Do you just not know how human interactions unravel anymore?Or what is it?
Usually it would be wise to let go of such feelings by interrupting the friendship causing them,however that is not the case in such a context.
At this point in time you only have one option:try not putting this companionship ahead of everything else,instead just hold it dear to you.Hopefully everything will be set in motion once again.
I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
02/28/2021
A person’s actions may be a result of careful thinking;
they may be a wim based on precursor principles and ideas,
although they might just as well be without a meaning.
A shell.Or not?
A wall.Or not?
Ensuring the groundwork behind every action should be the first priority.
None can be commenced whenever it is missing the meaning that should be conveyed.
However fundamental I regard this notion to be,not many do so nowadays.
Therefore I am left wandering about whether the meaning I see is real or made-up by my own beliefs,thoughts and needs.
Humans can be rather imaginative when it comes to deciphering the smallest of actions.
Nothing is almost ever delivered in its integrity,
May it be for fear of giving away the true meaning and reason they formed in their minds;
Or for a specifically intended reason,which,for all intents and purposes,is intangible.
06/04/2021
How can meaning be found,
When light keeps pouring in and out of you?
Blinded,
yet everseeing.
A call for higher purpose,
an eagle’s cry
heard in the distance.
Pain is seared in the follow-up response,
Nothing alike earthly sensation.
It stretches far and wide,
beneath your body,
above your soul,
nowhere in the middle,
for it does not locate
where the mind can get ahold of it,
Has destiny been set on stone,
or is the latter our own pliable existence?
“Repond.”
“How?”
“Just respond.”
For longer than an eternity could ever be,
it waited.
What for?
For oneself,
no sin can be condone,
no doubt can be harbored.
To build yourself,
You must be destroyed.
By what hands,
Will determine the freedom of your well’s boundaries.
To be teared up,
And shown bare in your true essence
Oh how tangible can pure fear be.
Now drown in yourself.
Now be your fear.
Now,
play in your abyss,
for there is where your meaning resides.
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”
— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)