Subject: Re: BANANAFISH digest 10
From: Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Date: Mon Jun 16 1997 - 15:06:33 GMT
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>It doesn't make you feel 'Yes, I can change things! Life CAN be great.'
>It just makes you feel that no matter how hard to try to reject it,
>you're still a part of humanity, you start 'missing' people. It's not
>going to go away, or get any better.
If you are ever marked by something tragic (or anything at all) and the pit
of despair opens before you and beckons that you jump in...well, it can be
extremely difficlut not to, and extremely difficult to get out should you
jump. So many people, friends, family, lovers, can reach desperately for
you, but they can't pull you out if you don't choose to come. And it can be
very easy to stay there and roll around in your own shit and fall deeper
and deeper into depression. Very easy. And when you're there you don't miss
a soul. But I believe the exit can be as simple as identifying with a
character in a work of literature. Holden's story is a touching one. Here's
this kid that absolutely hits the bricks, but he's coming back. He's
telling his story and, yeah, he's starting to miss people. That's a return.
It can be an incredible effort for the doer, but it can get better. You
must choose. There is a book by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox called _Your
Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and
Storytelling_, a workbook, really. I highly recomend it. There is a quote
from Jung on the back jacket: "I asked myself, 'What is the myth you are
living?' and found that I did not know. So...I took it upon myself to get
to know 'my' myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks...I simply had
to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me." It is an
invigorating exploration. But I've gone on long enough. I wonder if anyone
out there would mind passing on some information. The movie _Truley, Madly,
Deeply_, there is a poem my a Spanish? author presented early in the film.
It's been a very long time and I can't rememer anything about it except
that it ends "But I will go on living." If anyone could refer me to that
author or the title of the poem I would really appreciate it.
Steve.
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