I haven't written a post in a while and unfortunately this will be short. I guess I haven't posted in a while because the past weeks have been a little bit hectic in a lot of ways and I have sworn not to post under duress. However, that same duress along with Thanksgiving gave me a little bit of inspiration for a post.
In Philosophy of Film we discuss a lot of bullshit, I'm sure you guys knew this from the class name but still. There are two things that have really hit me in that class. The first is a quote from Grey Gardens that goes roughly 'All things are good that never happened'. The other came from our lecture about tragedy. In it the professor detailed the idea that tragedy within film is able to happen because we allow ourselves to bond to the characters. We allow ourselves to take on their romances, heartaches and burdens. The part that stuck with me is how that applies to my relationships with people. It seems to me that just like a film becomes more tragic as someone takes on more emotional burden a relationship becomes stronger the same way. When a stranger tells me an unfortunate thing that happened to them I have empathy for them from being a fellow human being but I would quickly revert to my base emotion. When one of my very close friends does the same thing there is a good chance that it would truly get to me and I would have trouble going back to a passive emotion. This applies to both wonderful and awful circumstances of course. My point is essentially that we shouldn't take the people around us for granted because they often hold a large burden by simply caring. My friends are there to empathize with me when things are rough and show up with high fives when things are great. I don't really know where I'd be without that other than far worse off. Heres to embracing the good, and riding out the bad with all the people you care about.
p.s. I actually didn't post all week because I was listening to the new kanye album on repeat
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