{"id":5766,"date":"2013-12-08T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2013-12-09T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:58:31","slug":"it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2013\/12\/it\/","title":{"rendered":"It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am sick of it<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always <em>it<\/em> about which one is sick. <\/p>\n<p>Does it even really matter what the content within <em>it<\/em> might be? <em>It<\/em> is morphing, moving, ever-changing, like the ubiquitous <em>they<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There is only the acknowledgement of the crossing of the threshold, over into the complete sickness of <em>it<\/em>, and for a while, we simply quit. Systems shut down. Whatever you can identify as some aspect of yourself &#8211; all those endless bleeding heaps of body, mind, soul, consciousness, sense, interpretation, mood, preference, style &#8211; all of these fuse in a rare moment of union at the moment when you cross that boundary condition.<\/p>\n<p>Everything, everything says &#8220;that&#8217;s enough.&#8221; We &#8211; I &#8211; Us &#8211; are one! SICK of <em>IT<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Danger, danger!<\/strong> Bad things could happen here. Voices: Run! Snap! Attack! But the best among the limited choices is probably &#8211; down! SLEEP!<\/p>\n<p>Sometime later, we recover enough, find that we have regained the ability to navigate around again, through and despite &#8220;it.&#8221; Wordlessly &#8211; without a sound or a thought &#8211; we slipped back under that threshold. Or maybe <em>it<\/em> just backed off to regroup, waiting for another weak, dark (hormonal?) moment. <\/p>\n<p><em>It<\/em> is an ever-mutating cluster. To be able to look at the current constellation without despair or anger or fear is difficult, sometimes impossible. This is why we have spiritual heroes &#8211; because we think maybe that they can, however flawed they might be otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>You might be able to subtract feelings, but what is the method to transform or add? All these years &#8211; all these studies &#8211; make me spit in disgust when <em>IT<\/em> looms. Worth nothing. Meditation, empathy, dreamtime, ritual, positive thought, body position &#8211; deflectors, not solutions. Everything seems pointless, meaningless &#8211; even hostile, murderous.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where is your <em>it<\/em> in the spectrum of the people you know, the people you&#8217;ve read, the people you&#8217;ve heard of? <\/li>\n<li>Do you avoid knowing about <em>it<\/em>? <\/li>\n<li>Is there any value in at least registering and recognizing <em>it<\/em>?<\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My <em>it<\/em> might look like small beans to one person, and as an insurmountable mountain of horror to someone else. <\/p>\n<p>All that I can do anymore is either monitor the reality of the hovering <em>it<\/em> &#8211; or else lie, and perform a happy happy dance (but happiness is momentary, not like this recurring, slimy, creepy encroachment always already ready). I understand how people have projected demons. <em>It<\/em> almost has a presence of <em>it<\/em>s own.<\/p>\n<p>Although the emotional feeling is of something over and against me, <em>it<\/em> is mine. <em>It<\/em> can only be mine, the construct of all the current struggles, real or imagined, the <em>ad nauseum<\/em> repetitions of argument and ignorance and all the things that bring disgust and anger and hopelessness and depression and alienation and &#8211; there are too many words for this separation and conflict. Spare me any platitudes about control or self-determination, I beg of you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I slice <em>it<\/em> with a flaming sword.<\/li>\n<li>I blow fire and smoke at <em>it<\/em> from my dragon&#8217;s mouth.<\/li>\n<li>I try to charm <em>it<\/em>, or absorb <em>it<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I try to dismiss or ignore <em>it.<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>How many methods can there be for continuing on despite <em>it<\/em>? I don&#8217;t have the talent or the spiritual maturity or the delusional stance that could accept <em>it<\/em>. All that really matters to me now is that I keep recovering from the sickness shutdown, that every time I cross the threshold into the infinite sickness of <em>it<\/em>, that I continue to choose shutdown, not flight or fight or self-destruction. Just isolate, nest, sleep, reboot.<\/p>\n<p><em>IT<\/em> will be better in the morning. <em>IT<\/em> will be better tomorrow. Bits of progress against <em>IT<\/em>, but then SLAM! backslide! Again, again, hope as a dream of an escaped Sisyphus. And then I look around and pray that there&#8217;s something better, in another dimension, up in space. And I understand why people cling to ideas of an afterlife.<\/p>\n<p><em>IT<\/em> is <em>IT<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>IT<\/em> never becomes <em>Thou<\/em>, not ever.<\/p>\n<p><em>IT<\/em> will kill you if you turn your back. 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