Looking back… from Max, #20: "Missing someone? Giving oneself over to the feeling that there’s an emptiness and a longing, hearing them speak when no one’s around, feeling them touch you when they’re not there, seeing them in a crowd and when you get up close, it’s not them. A kind of vertigo, losing one’s bearings, a weightlessness… maybe “falling in love” is not romantic nonsense, maybe the thing that makes us a most distinguishable primate is this capacity for romance and intimacy, a willingness to give ourselves unconditionally to another, that some instinct, some deep down darkness that makes no sense, where reason and logic and light have no power, that it’s in the mystery, in the unknown, in the shadings and shadows, in the not seeing clearly, in trusting the sensation and feeling that comes, when we acknowledge we’d do anything for them, anything to assist and support them, a kind of selflessness. There’s danger in this. Again, it’s about risk taking, about letting one’s guard down, about letting go of one’s preconceived notions, about admitting to our imperfections, about acknowledging our mortality. When we stand before our beloved, when in a crowd we see ourselves in others, when we feel connected in a way that transcends ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion and culture, when it’s clear there’s meaning outside our created concepts and categories, when language fails us, when there are no words, when we can no longer justify, sanction or legitimate our actions, when there’s simply a compelling need to reach out, to empathize, to love, this then, ever so dangerous." apartinthemidstof/current-probe-goad/2010/12/4/20-she-electrifies-me.html
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:39:29 +0000
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