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“It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.” - Winnicot, in Animal Joy (Nuar Alsadir)
Feb 24, 2025
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“This is why he is moved, as though he remembered a lost paradise, when he sees a grazing herd, or, in more intimate proximity, sees a child, which as yet has nothing past to deny, playing between the fences of past and future in blissful blindness. And yet the child's play must be disturbed: only too soon will it be called out of its forgetfulness. Then it comes to understand the phrase "it was", that password with which struggle, suffering and boredom approach man to remind him what his existence basically is—a never to be completed imperfect tense. And when death finally brings longed-for forgetfulness it also robs him of the present and of existence and impresses its seal on this knowledge: that existence is only an uninterrupted having-been, a thing which lives by denying itself, consuming itself, and contradicting itself.” - Nietzsche
Apr 24, 2024
meaning there is unending sadness yes, but there is exceeding joy as well if you’re looking. (pseudoplagiarized by this post i saw on ig last night)
Apr 16, 2025
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The word choice of "wasted" is really interesting.
If someone said "Misery is wasted on the miserable" it implies that they think the miserable deserve a chance of happiness, or coming out of misery. Which is a good thing ofc.
But saying "wasted" means misery is an important thing or feeling and those who experience it daily aren't deserving of experiencing it. Rather happy people deserve to be miserable. Which for me contradicts weirdly.
Like you said, sorrow or pain can give someone an opportunity to grow. So saying that miserable people shouldn't get miserable means that they've grown already or at least enough. Or maybe they don't deserve to grow. And happy people haven't grown at all, though they should. Since they deserve to be miserable.
What a thought
Sep 6, 2024
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