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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

I feel like there should be a better way to talk about stereotypically dark and cliche things without coming across as cynical

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I've definitely tweeted and written about this before. I suppose this is one of my preoccupations- how to synthesize madly different POVs

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I'd written a couple of things before that had several friends pinging me to ask me if I was okay. Which was ❤. But also how is anyone okay?

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

"How is anyone okay", I think, is a very rich and interesting vein of thought to explore. The "angsty", "naive" etc have good questions

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Am on a cold, crowded train right now and wondering how everyone is dealing. How they're coping. Feeling. "Good"? https://t.co/jzFbETvstE

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Everyday life is really a kind of drag. As in, a drag performance. An outfit: clothes, thoughts, behavior. We're born naked then all is drag

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I appreciate Twitter as a medium for self-expression. Will be wistful when it dies or morphs unrecognizably. Lets me think differently.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Life can easily become a lot of wistfulness in the face of death and change. We cling. We hold. But we inevitably let go, exhale.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Some think of nirvana as pleasurable paradise, but it's really just exhaling, letting go of suffering, of attachment. To cease being wistful

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Wistfulness is delicious. In a sense, suffering is delicious. Some of us find ways to suffer in the best of circumstances. Navigate by pain

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I was talking to a guy who got sent to an institution for having suicidal thoughts. He showed me his doctor's note(?). It was very telling

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

It was something like- "patient is bored and having suicidal thoughts, needs more responsibilities to keep him occupied"

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Maybe the doctor was just "doing his job" or following some checklist of some kind, where success simply means postponing a suicide.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

From my POV, "more responsibilities" doesn't address the source of the problem. Just adds stress, anxiety. He'd still wish to not wake up

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I share this story bc I think it's symptomatic of how we deal with the challenges of modern life in general. Distract. Anesthesize.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I guess religions, religious institutions, mindfulness, stoicism, meditation, zen, taoism all exist as ways to engage with this challenge

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

What's frustrating is that each exciting new school of thought so quickly becomes mindless ritual, turning into games of tokens and policing

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