More or less bulleted to each point. I wish I'd gotten this out before anyone else responded.
Longing has a different power than connection. Longing is the dream, self-constructed and personal. The connection is something else, and depends on how much of the fantasy one is willing to acquiesce to the person. Longing starves the soul. Connecting feeds it. The soul needs both.
Unrequited love is a kingdom of one with a throne filled with objects and memories instead of a person. There is a power there inasmuch as you make something new of it. Take all the energy of the feelings and turn them into something real. "The love we'll never make together/Is the most beautiful, the rarest, the most disconcerting" Serge Gainsbourg. There is no nobility in suffering. Martyrdom is the last refuge of the masochist.
Achievement is the death of desire. Spending too long in that empty kingdom will make you mad, or at least burn you down very small.
You are the empty page.
The page naturally longs for the pen. To make something new.
The most important thing, I think, is to remember the difference between happiness and unhappiness.
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Date: 2011-06-15 08:31 pm (UTC)Longing has a different power than connection. Longing is the dream, self-constructed and personal. The connection is something else, and depends on how much of the fantasy one is willing to acquiesce to the person.
Longing starves the soul. Connecting feeds it. The soul needs both.
Unrequited love is a kingdom of one with a throne filled with objects and memories instead of a person.
There is a power there inasmuch as you make something new of it. Take all the energy of the feelings and turn them into something real.
"The love we'll never make together/Is the most beautiful, the rarest, the most disconcerting" Serge Gainsbourg.
There is no nobility in suffering. Martyrdom is the last refuge of the masochist.
Achievement is the death of desire. Spending too long in that empty kingdom will make you mad, or at least burn you down very small.
You are the empty page.
The page naturally longs for the pen.
To make something new.
The most important thing, I think, is to remember the difference between happiness and unhappiness.