December 23, 2009

Scrub, Not Sublimate

If sublimating unhappiness is ultimately untenable we'd better learn relationship communication, better learn how to ask so it's understood whether words are used or not; I just wrote a story about this very thing. The story is based on something my wife said yesterday morning, "This floor needs scrubbing" and that afternoon I really did start scrubbing it, but everything else in this story I just made up and doesn't have much to do with my interior process.

Mostly I was thinking about what made it hard for me to motivate myself, again, and so imagined a scenario in which a guy conquers his 'acknowledgement demon' and a woman get her way. Like most fiction, real life doesn’t work this way, doesn’t get resolved this way, but also like most fiction, I think the point here remains the point: if we pay attention to our interior spaces, in time we can have more meaning in our lives and better relationships.

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