This one felt like a dance between the selves. I think we are often confronted with the same profound, eerie feeling: that the two selves within us - the lighter one and the darker one - seem separated, unable to find a bridge between them. I have had similar experiences, though with other struggles. Still, I felt your words vibrating deeply.
Thank you for meeting this piece with such depth. “A dance between the selves” feels exactly right — especially because neither self is false. The lighter one does not prove that the darker one was exaggerated, and the darker one does not make the lighter one less real.
Maybe the bridge is not a way to make those selves agree, but a place where neither has to erase the other in order to belong to the same life. I wrote this from the fear that someone might see the full movement between them and decide it was too much — so I disappeared before she could make that choice herself.
It means a great deal that the piece reached something in your own experience, even through a different kind of struggle. Thank you for letting your words vibrate back toward mine.
This one felt like a dance between the selves. I think we are often confronted with the same profound, eerie feeling: that the two selves within us - the lighter one and the darker one - seem separated, unable to find a bridge between them. I have had similar experiences, though with other struggles. Still, I felt your words vibrating deeply.
Thank you for meeting this piece with such depth. “A dance between the selves” feels exactly right — especially because neither self is false. The lighter one does not prove that the darker one was exaggerated, and the darker one does not make the lighter one less real.
Maybe the bridge is not a way to make those selves agree, but a place where neither has to erase the other in order to belong to the same life. I wrote this from the fear that someone might see the full movement between them and decide it was too much — so I disappeared before she could make that choice herself.
It means a great deal that the piece reached something in your own experience, even through a different kind of struggle. Thank you for letting your words vibrate back toward mine.