Friday, January 16, 2009

Love, Hate, Anger, Friendship

Of these several emotions can you feel all of them at the same time? The last one is not an emotion really but have you felt all of them for a friend or towards a friend. I am in that state of being where I can feel numbness. It is the numbness brought about by the lack of doing anything, arising from a state of joblessness- literally and metaphorically.

The first three are all powerful emotions and the last one a long lasting bond. But i think they are linked together. If each of them was a person with a body, limbs, head and soul they would be different personalities. The underlying commonality would then be the presence of a soul in those four bodies. Whats is a human being after all without a soul. All people have felt these emotions. To love, to hate, to be mad makes you a person, otherwise you would be listless. To hate love with utmost anger or to love without hate and anger is a transition from adolescence to adulthood. Maybe the reverse.

I know not which emotion i am in the throes of now but if i could test on a chromatographic paper there would be shades of all the above feelings. Does everybody find it hard to call somebody a friend? Does nobody think that friendship is hard. I don't know if i have felt this way all the time but now i feel this way all the time. Its been a difficult time for me. Not as difficult as somebody with cancer, stents, angioplasty, chemotherapy, or cerebral palsy; but difficult none the less. And the reason probably is love, hate, anger and friendship

Friendship is tricky. I have a few friends but I am surrounded by friendship which is hollow, profound, weak, strong, respectable, dubious, and all other sorts and i cant categorize mine. Why does it have to take so much to become friends? Is it time that strengthens the ties of friendship or that one connection you made while crossing the street? Is there a determinant for friendship- if it is: is it same for everybody or different for all people or it just sort of depends?

Lyrically:

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that shes been there
Probably been moved on from every place
cos she didnt fit in there

Oh think twice, its another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, its just another day for you,
You and me in paradise

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