Is there a word for it?
Posted by Caldwell on Thu, 31 Oct 2024
How to encapsulate that feeling? Like loss, bereavement, a tender crushing feeling that you want to push you to tears but they just won't come. Like seeing beauty and feeling a kind of ache knowing that even as you experience it and it's there right now, you know that it's dying, that it's lost, that even as you're feeling it you can't quite touch it. Somehow like trying to draw a perfect circle freehand and searing it, slicing it, so balanced, so fine, that it's impossible, yet it exists. The frailty, the unquantifiable weight of love. Pure, mind-frying, infinite, and yet it surrounds you, surrounds us all. Existence. Painful. So exact and so accidental. What is it? Chaos with predictable patterns that still somehow manage to surprise, confound, delight, and overwhelm. I feel filled to the brim with it and it's almost unbearable but I don't want to be without it. It is everything and it is nothing.
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"Chaos with predictable
"Chaos with predictable patterns that still somehow manage to surprise, confound, delight, and overwhelm. I feel filled to the brim with it and it's almost unbearable but I don't want to be without it" yes! I have just felt this in the woods. So much beauty and majesty that petty human stuff is pushed out. You express it very well :0)
It is so exact that it isn't
It is so exact that it isn't accidental. I would say it is the awareness implanted in us of a creation that was exquisite and us made with an appreciation of it, though all has been marred for now, but still the beauty that is too great to be accidental can move and delight. Rh
grace.
grace.