27 Aralık 2017 Çarşamba

Oak Trees

Oak trees grow 
to be hundreds of years old.
They only have to produce one single tree
every hundred years in order to propagate.

May sound benign to her, but
it was a big thing for me to realize that
when I was there with her.

The acorns fell on the roof then, too...
kept falling, and falling,
and dying, and dying.

And I understood that...
everything that used to be
beautiful about there,
was perhaps hideous.

Now I could feel
what I couldn't feel before.

The cry of all the things that are to die.
In a way dying is reborn.

It's all... very touching...
if it was a children's book.
Acorns don't cry.
She knows that as well as I do.

That's what hope is.
My thoughts summarize my feelings...

Not the other way around.



the Water Lilies of Monet

Inhale. On a count of five...
Call me, call me.
Just...
Follow me, do it with me.
Inhale.
Inhale, on a count to five...
Inhale.
Two...
Stay with me, stay with me.
I'm gonna teach you
how to get over longing.

Inhale.

Imagine,
imagine she’s blowing
on her thistle plumes...
calmly, quietly...

Yes, yes, that's good. That's good.
That's very good.
I should have told her there would be a change too.
We're still mourning
but we're in a new phase.

So what happened?

It's my own fault.
I'm just a bad scrabbler.
I suppose
you’ve never met
a bad scrabbler.

Well, you have now, my silent observer.
Do you want to talk about it?
But, I fear that you wouldn't understand also.

There's no harm in trying.
Well, let’s try.
But I wouldn't know where to start.

It hurts. It will.

I know.
You know.
Everyone knows.
Maybe she knows, also…
Who knows?

What phase after mourning?

Sicking of.

Yes.
This is physical.

It's dangerous isn’t it?

Actually, no, it's not dangerous.
Just as our grief wasn't dangerous.

A main part of sicking of is physical:
Dizzy spells,
dry mouth,
distorted hearing,
trembling,
heavy breathing,
fast pulse,
nausea and
missing, missing and much more missing...

There's no way around it.
I want to talk to –

I'm not gonna let her do that.

Will it just go on and on?
No. No, I'll change.
Will it get better?
Yes, it will.
How are we?
How were we that shall how are we now?

Didn't we just talk about that?

That was yesterday.
Today is Wednesday.

So I've been here
and
far from her
long?

A month.

Everyone says that
my grief pattern is atypical.

I think I long for you too much,
way too much.

I should stop it, please, now.
Trust others to be smarter than me.

No, I don’t.
And I'm proud that I'm not
when I meet others like them.
‘Il sont eux.’

There is nothing atypical about my grief.

I had to meddle.

A place I couldn’t even explain myself
leads something.
On the contrary.
Grief...
Hone for her…
It's not a disease,
it's a natural, emotional reaction.
I can't just destroy it, I mustn't.

Everyone knows I’m a scrabbler.
They say shouldn't treat myself and ourselves.

In principle I agree, but...
But I’m just so much smarter, am I?
I love doing like that, writing and commentating also,
my silent observer.

Nothing hurts more than
to see the one that you miss
subjected to mistakes and wrongs.

No scrabbler can know
as much about her as I do.

If I can't tell myself...
What is make me upset of,
maybe it would be easier for her to tell me,
where I am upset?
Where would I feel most exciting?
Where would I feel most exposed?
What would be the best place?

An apartment?
The street?
A store?
The park?
Visiting someone, maybe.

Nah, not at all.
A city.

A city, so weird isn’t it, my silent observer?

A city, yes.
It's that because
she was there and
ıt was the first place I saw her.

What upset me…
Or what get excited me... there?

Everything about her.

Tell myself what I think
is supposed to happen in there.


Let's make a list of things I’m exciting of.
At the top, we put the situation
I excited the most.

But I don't know what I'm exciting of.

Just... take your time.
I'm thinking.
I'm thinking, but...

Can't I just be exciting without a definite object?

What do I say we put...?
A city
at the top of the pyramid?
No... Not quite at the top.


Exposure - that's the only thing
that really works.

Everything else is... just talk with her.

I have to have the courage to stay
in the situation that exciting me.

And then I'll learn
that grief
I hope turning into glee
 isn't dangerous.

Close her eyes.
Feel the seat underneath her.
Feel herself sinking down into it...
enfolding her...
It's a nice feeling.
What she feels is a pleasant warmth...
and heaviness.
Her breath is deep...
Regular... Easing.
Now...
Imagine we are at there again.
Imagine I arrived
at there through the woods.
Tell us what we see.

Shall I say?

We are at the bridge.
It's evening.
Almost no birds can be heard.
The water is running without a sound.
Darkness comes out anytime here.
I walk into it.
The little deers... are hiding,
among the ferns. As usual.

Is it difficult to walk there?

No. Not really.
In fact, it's almost okay
cause we are together.
And we will never be alone again
cause it doesn't happen every day

In among the trees,
on the slope,
there's a?
A foxhole.

How do I feel there?

I can't really tell.
It should be easy, passing.
And yet,
it's like walking through mud.
The trunk is thick.
The tree rots so slowly.
It has some strange kind of personality.
I've always found that.

Now...
Where are we, are you,
are we heading for the there?

Yes, we are.
We’re walking up the path
through the tall grass.

Then we don't go in.
Don't go in.
It's the outside I am exciting of.
Don't look around.
No.
Lie down on the green.
Lie down on the grass.

On top of all the plants?

Yes, lie down on the plants.
Are we lying down?

Yes.

Good.
What is everything like around us?

Her.
It's almost about her.

Good.
Now will I do what I ask her?

Yes.

What do I want myself to do?
I want her...

to melt into the her.
Don't fight it.
Just - turn - her.
No matter what happens:
We were there. We did it.
Let feelings come, if it likes.

Remember: what the mind can
conceive and believe, it can achieve.

She’s always been distant from me and us.
Ever I come to think of it...
very, very distant.

Okay.
Can I give myself some examples from this?
Hell, that's not that difficult
to understand and explain.

Last autumn, for instance...
She was terribly distant last autumn.
And that was the last and first autumn,
we were together,
we missed that on.
Too bad.

I never interested like that...
until now...
that I became scrabbler.

Perhaps I'm not supposed to
talk about these things.
There is nothing we can't talk about each other.
She is indifferent to whether
my thought is alive or dead.

I bet I had a lot of clever response.
Scrabblers like me replies to that, hadn’t I?
Well, actually...
It was to honor her wish.

I wanted a something to write.
Perhaps I didn't mean it.
What I understood...
is that I wanted to write alone.

When I think,
you and me were going to go to there,
just the two of us…
That way, I could finish my sensation.

But I didn't.

You see, my silent observer?
She didn’t even know that.

Why did I give up? That's not like me.
The whole project just seemed
less important up there.

As others said,
when they had told my about my sensation:
"Glib".

If ask to them,
they say that
never called your subject "glib".

Perhaps they didn't use that word,
but that's what they meant.


And all of a sudden, it was glib.
Or even was some, some kind of...

She sees?

No, she doesn't see.
She sees a lot of things, but not that.

I shouldn't have started to tell here.

But this may not last.
Have I thought of that?

It's just, sometimes, I forget.
Myself talk with myself about is an obsession.
Obsessions never materialize.
It's a scientific fact.
Anxieties can't trick me into doing things
she won't do otherwise.
It's like hypnotism.
I can't be hypnotized into doing
something she wouldn't...
normally do, something she would…

You understand me, my silent observer?
Yeah, you think so, aren’t you?
You think so?
Well, you can’t understand me, maybe feel what I say
or just trust me.

I'd like to do one more.

It's like role playing.
My role...
is...
all the thoughts that provoke my emotion...
hers...
is rational thinking.


I am nature...
All the things that she calls nature.

Okay, I’m ready as a Mr. Nature.

What do I want?

To wait me as much as she can.

How?
How do you think, my silent observer?

By frightening to abandon me?
By loving me?
By feeling just like I fell to her?

Nature can't harm us.
We’re just the whole greenery outside.

No, I'm more than that.

You don't understand aren’t you.

I'm outside, but also...
within.
I'm nature of all human beings.

Oh, that kind of nature.
The kind of nature that
causes people to do
triggering things to her

That's exactly who I am.

That kind of nature interested me
a lot when I was up there.

That kind of nature was
the subject to my feelings.
But she shouldn't underestimate there and my feelings.
What did there do?

I discovered something else
in my thoughts than I expected.

If human nature is me,
then that goes as well...
for the nature of...

Of the her?

The nature of all about her.
I do not control my mind -
Nature does.
I have it in writing in my books.

Forget it.
I do not know why I said it.
I can't work anymore now.

I've been bewaring of here before.
Yes, it seems likely.

I just didn't know it was anxiety.
I became anxiety, and I have started writing.

What was different, the last time?

I heard a sound coming through deep of my heart.

It wasn't hearing its screaming.
Apparently not.
And because I experienced something
that I can't explain rationally,
I placed there very high
on the pyramid chart.

There was the catalyst
that triggered my feelings
and tied the emotional event with a place.
If she feels me, it's natural to react.
If the feeling become real,
My grief would save my life,
because my adrenaline would
be used for fight or flight.

But what I’m experiencing
is missing, nothing more. The grief wasn't real.

I am jumping to conclusions...

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