My therapist moved back to Canada.
I've been looking into other ways
to receive feedback on the conversations
going on inside my head.
The trouble is, too many people
seem to have a market on this business.
One book told me to ignore the voice
because why would you want to listen to someone
who never ceases to have something to say?
Another book told me staying positive is an empty value
because negative thoughts give us the most valuable input
and it's ok to feel like shit.
In the famous book I'm reading with my students,
the hero of the story becomes that way entirely
by accident.
If I am to follow the advice of the first book,
I first have to decide the incessant commentator bothers me
and mute the damn thing.
The second book feels more targeted
towards people like me
(people who don't want to be monks),
but I can't shake the feeling that it might be somehow
making the same point as the first book.
The famous book came long before:
Tests, Allies, and Enemies confront the Hero of the Story
before he can return Home,
a Changed Man.
About Me
- Beth
- From "Letters to a Young Poet," Rainer Maria Rilke: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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