Real wisdom here, David. And there is of course a step 'below' even the one you describe.
With this one there's not even the possibility to 'drop all pretenses', because there's barely an 'us' remaining at all. With this one we are smashed, a scattering of shards, and to hope/despair or not is completely out of our hands.
Real wisdom here, David. And there is of course a step 'below' even the one you describe.
With this one there's not even the possibility to 'drop all pretenses', because there's barely an 'us' remaining at all. With this one we are smashed, a scattering of shards, and to hope/despair or not is completely out of our hands.
Now we just need to wait and see what happens. It might be psychosis. Or it might be grace, liberation, and a new course of action we’d never have been open to without that smashing. It might be the whole lot (King Lear). But it's not up to us, and part of the psychosis/liberation might be to see that nothing ever really was.
Happened to me once, in a Spanish Burger King. :-)
After that everything became Before Burger King and After Burger King. Terrifying and transforming, as you suggest, and I wouldn't swap it for anything.
Real wisdom here, David. And there is of course a step 'below' even the one you describe.
With this one there's not even the possibility to 'drop all pretenses', because there's barely an 'us' remaining at all. With this one we are smashed, a scattering of shards, and to hope/despair or not is completely out of our hands.
Now we just need to wait and see what happens. It might be psychosis. Or it might be grace, liberation, and a new course of action we’d never have been open to without that smashing. It might be the whole lot (King Lear). But it's not up to us, and part of the psychosis/liberation might be to see that nothing ever really was.
Or never was what we always thought it was.
“I am poured out like water…”
Been there, pretty darn close to there. And maybe was changed, by being scattered to the wind.
Happened to me once, in a Spanish Burger King. :-)
After that everything became Before Burger King and After Burger King. Terrifying and transforming, as you suggest, and I wouldn't swap it for anything.