Writing As A Form Of Therapy

[BlueBay]

Thank you @Zoe7

[Silenus]

Hi @Shimmer 🙂

How do I feel looking back on my writing over the years?

Fantastic. It truly is an amazing gift.

You know how your memory attaches itself to certain milestones? How you make associations with memories? It's quite interesting to observe it at work, inside the reality of one's self...

It's like hearing a song that you used to listen to years ago... all the memories of what you were doing and what you were feeling and what you were thinking... it all comes rushing back to you when you hear that song...

Or it's like the smell of frangipani flowers, bringing back a rush of memories from childhood summers past...

That's exactly what my poems and other writings are like... when I read it again, I am instantly transported back to the mindspace I was in when I wrote it...

It allows me to view the same thing from many different angles...

From this self analysis comes much potential for growth, wisdom and personal evolution...

This is my world... it's how I roll... 🙂

Hugs and happy vibes beaming to you...

[Faith-and-Hope]

Hi @Zoe7 .... 😊

I can see you have been here already ... 

Meet @Silenus ....

❤️

[Silenus]

Trying to not sound stalker-ish...

...erm... hello... 🙂

Hahaha...

Greetings and salutations to you @Zoe7 ... nice to meet you...

Hiya @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member @Kurra @...I never remember who to tag... I love you one and all, and profess my memory is very selective, and usually awful...

I make up for my bad memory by living in this Now moment, moment to moment... always in the present...

It is a much more genuine and first-hand way of living than reliving the past or imagining the future...

...and it doesn't rely on memory... hahaha...

(Forgetful twinkle in his eye...)

Giggle...

Hugs and happy vibes beaming to you all... 🙂

[Appleblossom]

Those stats have given me a giggle @Silenus

not sure about forgetful eye twinkles ..is that the same as being a Pythonesque .. very norty boy??

I am not at all OCD about my writings .. but gotta get more like that ... 

ahem ... from a long way on the other side of the spectrum .. organised chaos

[Silenus]

Hahahahaaaaa... hiya @Appleblossom 🙂

I wish I knew what kind of apple tree grew in our front yard in Denmark when I was a kid...

Best. Apples. Ever.

Ever.

Nostalgia... the past was oh so good or oh so bad... but nostalgia focuses on the good...

We want to hold onto the good... we do so much damage in our lives, trying to hold on to an idealised fragment of nostalgia...

Lost friends... lost loves... lost family... all lost...

Nostalgia is a way of framing loss with fondness...

The "good old days"...

It is a pleasant enough pastime... engaging in the expression of nostalgia... but it is an expression of the past, and so it is a second-hand experience... nice at the time... perhaps okay for reaffirming values and beliefs, but also immensely dangerous because of this...

The wrong lessons learned from experience can be so very difficult to unlearn...

Do yourselves a favour... skim the surface of nostalgia, but do not dive too deep... you will be dragged down without a trace...

[Silenus]

(Points at head)

I never know where this crap is coming from...

Hahaha...

[Appleblossom]

Dunno either. @Silenus I take on your note of caution.  

Rising sky high .. or digging .. done a bit of both... a middling amount.

Its been nice knowing you .. a widdle bit.

[Zoe7]

Hi @Silenus

Just read some of your work -brilliant!!!!

Need to check in here more 

[Silenus]

As I continue this journey through life, evermore I find myself living the Sufi ideal... in the world but not of it...

Further and further away I get from mundane reality...

Tax returns... what are they... I own a business and haven't filed a BAS or company return or personal return in over 2 years...

A form of civil disobedience because I deem the Australian government complicit in human rights abuses... refugee conventions and stuff...

Ergo... by all that I hold right and wrong, I see the Australian government as a criminal organisation (to say nothing of the corruption and tax-payer funded endless partying)...

I do not fund criminal organisations... therefore, I have stopped paying tax...

No way is my money going to be used to fund criminality and abuse...

Most will think me insane for this course of action... I often see myself as the sanest in the room... my values of right and wrong are pure, and I'm not afraid to stand by them...

I guess that makes me truly mad in an insane society...