...do I dare to eat a peach? - a soupçon of melodrama, i suppose

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in_omnia

21 August 2009 @ 09:50 pm

a soupçon of melodrama, i suppose

This is a little cryptic, for which I apologize. But do you ever meet people who are so...lost and screwed up, I guess...that your heart hurts for them? I guess everyone is a little lost from someone else's perspective, but some people are so raw all the time that I have to wonder if they even see the world through all their glowing red self. Do they wish to exist in that hurt? Do they ever grow out of it? I have to admit that I don't generally feel the desire to fix them---that's their choice, their responsibility---but they pulse so fiercely with their pain, anger, fear that I wish I could show them how I see the world. Or at least smother them in aloe for a while.

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mneme-metis.livejournal.com on August 24th, 2009 10:57 pm (UTC)

I don't come across those sorts of people too often, but I know what you mean. Unfortunately, if they happen to be friends, I do feel the need to try to help, but I'm working on resisting that. :) No one can change unless they want to. But I like the idea of a surprise bucket of aloe.

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in-omnia.livejournal.com on August 25th, 2009 02:37 am (UTC)

I don't come across them very often either, thank goodness. And so far, I haven't had very many friends/acquaintances who are this way. When they are, I'm not usually close friends with them: our perspectives on just about everything are so different that I usually feel as though I'm talking to a brick wall whenever the conversation ventures beyond small talk.

Them: The world is evil.
Me: Butterflies are pretty, though. And see how inspiring this one is, breaking from its chrysalis?
Them: The world is a chrysalis. And I will NEVER GET OUT.
Me: Um. Maybe it's like a cave, and you just have to, you know, turn around. And, uh, walk out.
Them: Into darkness, maybe!
Me: With stars? Maybe?
Them: Black holes!
Me: Black hole sun?
Them: ...I like that song.
Me: Whew. Yeah. Me too. I'm gonna go get a drink....

A bucket of aloe would come in handy at that point. And just think how awesome it would be to greet people with a bucket of aloe and say "Aloe!" in a British accent so it sounds like "'Allo!" So. Cool. (And soothing....)

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insanedeity.livejournal.com on August 27th, 2009 04:18 pm (UTC)

I think I have actually written entire novel lengths works on this ver subject. Which I will nto be relating in my 4 min of remain ing CPL internet time. But I'm going to hang on to the aloe Idea.

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