God ~ wife ~ geography ~ things
Is this what I want? Yes or no?
To reaffirm is to make it live again. It is to choose and to endorse the choice.
If the answer to this question is a negative, a "no", it reveals that the ruling principle is no longer love or choice. Instead we in a relationship of Obligation which results in Burden, disssatisfaction, irritation, frustration, etc.
Re-affirmation is a necessary step to make our relationships live again.
Nov 8, 1985
To the degree that we cannot reaffirm, to that degree we are just going through the motions as our lives are becoming hollowed out. Perhaps this is what T.S. Eliot was writing about when he wrote,
"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar...."
www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html
1 comment:
I had not read The Hollow Men in a very long time (since high school?) and when I read it here, I see that the pre-amble is a quote from Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Very intriguing.
The last line is especially famous...
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
This poem is the summation of our human tragedy, and once more reminds us of the essentiality of Hope. How dark life will be otherwise.
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