Seasons, senses & self: Day 24
Melancholy. Mournful pensiveness. Lack of motivation. Shutting the world out. “Sadness without any apparent occasion”.
Self-protective submissive attitude to oppression? Sullen silence is some people’s only option.
Turning inwards after loss – feeling powerless, perplexed, adrift.
Ashamed of failure or disability – shamed by others → self-shaming.
“Thou canst not think worse of me than I do”.
The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF): a different perspective.
“Friendships enrich your life and improve your health.”
“Many mental health experts recommend journalling.” This scribbling keeps me steady.
Moving, walking, chanting, singing.
Dark creative den.
Woodland solitude.
Living.
Seasons, Senses & Self: a daily series
A rather disorderly assemblage of thoughts and quotes and references today, using the 1+2+3 format. Quotes from Shakespeare (from Jacques, Hamlet, and a sonnet) got edited out, but two from the same era remain in (they are from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy). The title is from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, which came along half a century later.
I’ll sign off with some lines from Edward Thomas:
Or must I be content with discontent
As larks and swallows are perhaps with wings?
… … … Or shall I perhaps know
That I was happy oft and oft before
Awhile forgetting how I am fast pent
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