Why is it that we're constantly drawn towards the people and things that give us pain? Whether it's unhealthy relationships, dangerous activities, or a high pressure life, we never stop to backtrack into safe territory. We cross the line between something that's secure to enter a forbidden area: we see the signs that say "Warning: High Voltage" but we enter anyways. Is it because we think we're stronger than those who came before us? We watch ourselves make the mistakes of our predecessors, but we constantly think that somehow, this time it'll be different. We'll make it different. Or maybe we're all masochists in a way - the pain starts to feel good once in a while when we forget what true misery is like. Does the suffering make us feel real? Or are we just searching for pain because that's the only way we can be sure to relate to the human experience? As REM already told us, everybody hurts: maybe we unconsciously put ourselves in vulnerable positions because we're programmed to try to act human - or at least like our version of it. Or maybe it's like that saying: Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop. We just happen to have a hard time stopping.
-Gal
4 comments:
mind boggling,
yet so true >.<
That's really pretty. The delivery, not the subject. You should write a book.
and you told me those were from karate =[
indeed, just the fact that we remain in school implies that we're all masochists.
Implies? Nay sir. It confirms.
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