@Guillotine_Jones It took me until in my 50s before I became intensely blazingly (rightly) angry. It has been a personal step to allow that, though how to use it is another step I need to learn. So this helps me too ie it isn't an abstract.
@Natasha_Jay, not a Terry Pratchett connaisseur but this reminds me of the idea that aggression is also natural, useful, and even important, as in it serving as a *creative impulse*.
It’s not helpful in this light to confuse aggression with violence—two different things.
From the archive: Terry Pratchett may strike many as a twinkly old elf, but that’s not him at all. Neil Gaiman on the inner rage that drives his ailing friend’s writing
The Assassin's Guild always intrigued me. The Patrician was wise. If they're going to run around murdering people anyway, might as well make a guild, tax them, and have them charge proper fees. You need a license to become a member, and the final exam to get in is ... erm ... very final if you fail. It's a proper business, that Guild, and I wouldn't say ill of it
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It's not a command to be angry, it's an allowance that it can be natural to feel it
Sadness and anger can coexist too
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
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in reply to Guillotine Jones, Flâneur • • •It took me until in my 50s before I became intensely blazingly (rightly) angry. It has been a personal step to allow that, though how to use it is another step I need to learn. So this helps me too ie it isn't an abstract.
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
in reply to Natasha 🇪🇺 • • •But much later than my 50s in my case.
Unfortunately.
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in reply to Natasha 🇪🇺 • • •@Natasha_Jay, not a Terry Pratchett connaisseur but this reminds me of the idea that aggression is also natural, useful, and even important, as in it serving as a *creative impulse*.
It’s not helpful in this light to confuse aggression with violence—two different things.
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