ladychatterley
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I'm behind, but I still want to add my two cents. I think sometimes some people are maybe drawn to submission because they are damn good at hiding their emotions 99% of the time, and one of the things they are looking for is being forced to feel, to not use the shortcuts they always use to paper over their emotions. However, when people just start to learn something, sometimes you suck at it. If one has been running away from one's emotions since middle school, then sometimes they come up in unpolished, inelegant ways. If someone has been using something (like alcohol, drugs, television or even is always extroverted to avoid introspection or always intellectual to avoid emotional) on a regular basis and just tries to stop that coping mechanism and is in a social situation, sometimes it feels like there's a chasm between oneself and the rest of humanity. (And I can point to 5,000 artistic examples from the last 35 years to show it is a common experience, at least in America, but it still feels like you are all alone and no one in the world could ever understand you or love you the way you are.) It isn't sophisticated, or polished or mature. But if things are profoundly moving in one area of the relationship, it can shift things so that you start to feel things you wouldn't let yourself feel until that point. And knowing you are feeling things in the wrong time and the wrong place and the wrong way, perhaps removing oneself from the situation so that one isn't a downer may be the most appropriate thing to do. Haven't we all removed ourselves from social situations to swallow our sobs in a bathroom stall and then put on a happy face to the rest of the world? And if someone comes to talk to you, when you are having a dark night of the soul and has had a similar dark night, and can offer you a little acceptance in your flawed humanity it can be an amazing transformative experience. At least, that's what some of the best art of my lifetime would lead one to believe.
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