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title: "Duh, didn’t think to look at my Highlights to see that I’d saved the phrase in question.."
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date: 2018-03-18
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Duh, didn’t think to look at my Highlights to see that I’d saved the phrase in question..
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Prolific indeed. And excessive is quite fitting — for various reasons as you say.
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> As for your musing here in general, obviously I can’t comment upon WAR/*Her* … they are *your* characters/protagonists/avatars/alter egos/whatever …DUH. WAR should have been WAF….lazy/tired shorthand for Where Angels Fear. This is what I get for writing in the twilight between waking and rest.
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And by *Her *I was referring to the *Her *that you were initially concerned I might be, when we first talked. *Your* ***Her***, not *my ****Her***, so to say.
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> But I think you are correct about the dangers of making someone ‘the centre of our universe’, as it were.Very very well put. And it provides significant context for the events that spawned this particular post. The idea of a deliberate reflection of myself in particular. Explains rather a lot, and seems rather obvious now you set it out for me!
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> If you want to shut your mind up then there are many ways to do soI don’t think I have it quite as bad as you. Often I can filter out all the unnecessary thought. But its certainly nice to have true peace once in a while!
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> Exercise is a good oneYep. I find boxing a vital outlet — though probably not the most ideal it is certainly better than drugs or worse. A good way to achieve the noted physical exhaustion that also brings the mental exhaustion we seek.
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Or, of course, there’s always motorcycling…
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I didn’t realise how much motorcycling contributed to my mental wellbeing until I’ve been without a bike for going on a month now. I’m ragged around the edges and it’s starting to *show…*
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> I started to disappear in a way that my conscious mind knew meant I would not be coming back afterwardsThat sounds *fucking terrifying*, to put it mildly!
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> Music can be a great thing to get lost inYep…putting one song on repeat is something I use when I’m feeling emotionally overwhelmed.[1]
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> instrumental material that isn’t just poetry sung over music; the more complex it is the better and a knowledge and appreciation of formal musical structure and construction helps enormously hereThis, I haven’t quite got the hang of — although I often pay more attention to background instrumentals than lyrics. Either way, certainly sounds worth a try..
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> …curiously liberating experience in that I was no longer responsible for it and didn’t need to concern myself with it…Now that sounds like meditation to me. Sounds like what you eloquently described in [5] a bit too. Of course, I’ve never managed it *either*, so I don’t know…
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It also sounds intriguing. But I don’t know the first thing about construction and structure…hmm…
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> [1] [Kris Gage](https://medium.com/u/67d9cdce33af) has a lot of sensible …Yes, I *know*. If my memory isn’t up to its usual tricks, we ran into each other in the Responses section of one of her posts!
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[1] Which is any time I feel strong emotion of any sort :/ Working on that…kinda
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