Dark Sentiments Season 13 — Day 18: Melancholia

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  1. Zac says:

    Melancholy is deeply Slavic. My father’s side are Croatian and so are almost genetically attached to it!
    I myself have this sort of gene based appreciation of melancholy, and so I can feel through it to the other side; if you’ve lived through enough tough times in life you can then “decipher” melancholy feeling itself and find the dark humour in the melancholic -> you know how much things hurt because you’ve been through them yourself, and you know it’s better to laugh than cry if you want to keep moving forward. And in so doing you (can) laugh away your personal demons. This is Kuki Taisho in Japanese martial terminology. The Japanese see the Sakura (cherry blossom) time as both beautiful and terrible: the blossoms on the cherry trees are very pink and at their most lively, but at this peak they die and fall to the ground. The warrior taste of both death and life at the same time: melancholy

    • Randy says:

      Thank you Zac.

      In The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham wrote,

      “We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.

      “The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.

      “And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.”

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