“[One day] […] there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead–when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”
— Irvin D. Yalom, from Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Basic Books, 1989)
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
A doubt arousal
I will tell you it's not me
I am a product of virtues and vacancies
The next decision I take
Isn't mine at all
It is manipulated and churned
Ask me a technical term
I will define gaslighting
While defining gaslighting
If I add few irrelevant facts
Forgive me
I already am manipulated
my next few decisions
Aren't within my control
You have me saying it
But I am trained to say so
You have me telling truth
But I am schooled to say so
You have me telling lies
But I was prepared to sell those
If your guts gave you courage
I want you to believe me
When I say believe me
If you doubt yourself right now
Do it
Wear off yourself
Do it
descrate yourself
Do it
Cleave the thoughts you holding
Do it (yourself)
Severely impotent right?
wait I know it's not you
And now you know it's not me
It as it is defined
Is gaslighting
It ain't red lettered alright ?
This definitely is narcissism.
NARCISSISM IS A RACE
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
“To begin with I like words.”
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Something Wicked / “Innocence”, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
“My realities may be different from what most people call reality, but still they are realities.”
— Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), in a letter to Osias Kormann, from a Westerbork concentration camp, 1943, in “An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters 1941-43. And Letters from Westerbork″
Clarice Lispector, tr. by Stefan Tobler, from Água Viva
Nothing more can be scarier than the fact when you realise that your life isn't happening , it is just passing.
losing a friend (for the one that got away) 1/3
part 2 , part 3
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