For any that still read this...

[wisdoms_folly]

Ok, I had a lapse. 8 months of happiness and serenity had left me unprepared and vulnerable to the onslaught of depression left in the wake of a positive emotion's departure. I can't believe how quickly I fell back into the old habits, how quickly I turned to the old demon. I can't believe how I dropped everything to wallow.

It has passed.

Time and

Comments

[starshine57]

I'll admit, I'm glad to hear you're stepping out of the shadows. You're stoicism has always bothered me a bit. Of course, because I see merit and beauty in all emotions, it doesn't mean that you have to as well. I understood where you come from and what you mean by your stoicism, and I do admire your quest for betterment and hope you eternally succeed along that quest, but please excuse a little pang of joy that you've decided to come out and play for a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oES0DgeAwyw
(Also please excuse my sappy hippy cheeriness.) :D

[wisdoms_folly]

I've seen neither merit nor beauty in sadness or greif. I've seen no worth in depression. I've seen no usefulness in anger. I've found value in a clear level disposition, and some small measure of happiness. It is the excessive surges of these good feelings that lead us towards the negative ones, once the good one's leave us.
I've wondered recently, though, if a true stoic could ever love. Perhaps so, but perhaps not in the way I define love. And perhaps, I shan't be able to be as I wished.

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want"
~Mignon McLaughlin