Good morning :o) Being rejected by those you trust is betrayal. That is a deep cut.
"Internally, that produces real friction. Doubt. The temptation to clarify. The dangerous urge to sand the work down just enough to be legible without effort."
It was an odd lesson in self reflection when I published Dawn of the Iconoclast last year. Sure, I knew writing a dense philosophical manifesto with poetry, was a risky move. But as friends bought it, to support me, that’s where it began and ended. Apart from a few telling they didn’t understand it. And that touched a nerve. One long buried, and I’d felt before, one of not being understood by those I counted as friends. That I’m seen as “clever” but that part of me doesn’t get to express itself among my friends, and why I seek that affirmation online.
Good morning :o) Being rejected by those you trust is betrayal. That is a deep cut.
"Internally, that produces real friction. Doubt. The temptation to clarify. The dangerous urge to sand the work down just enough to be legible without effort."
It was an odd lesson in self reflection when I published Dawn of the Iconoclast last year. Sure, I knew writing a dense philosophical manifesto with poetry, was a risky move. But as friends bought it, to support me, that’s where it began and ended. Apart from a few telling they didn’t understand it. And that touched a nerve. One long buried, and I’d felt before, one of not being understood by those I counted as friends. That I’m seen as “clever” but that part of me doesn’t get to express itself among my friends, and why I seek that affirmation online.
I think a re-promotion is in order. We are living in very philosophical times. People might actually ‘get it’ now?
You don’t seek affirmation. You receive it because it is deserved :o)