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Bubblegumgabber

Curiousity lives and thrives in the dark and anxiety toils and turmoils in the light I'm sorry if you struggle with this and thank you for creating such a beautiful poem.

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

oh no! im good!
but thankyou.

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, that is good to hear this is actually more of how my power of dissapering to a blank space worked it was the edge of enjoying oblivion or returning to the possible joys or pitfalls of reality, but i then read the butterflys burden and thought to myself about actual butterflys for some time and came to a question that confounds me and keeps me in the light. Is a cacoon the dark bliss of a caterpillar and the light the ecstasy of the butterfly? Food for thought or for me a bone to a dog lol.

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

@Bubblegumgabber,
that's definitely an interesting question. so, the caterpillar retreats there in search of oblivion, of bliss, of an escape, but for the butterfly that comes from the experience, it has known only darkness thus is excited and curious about the light that it used to hate so?

i think i'd look at it as the cacoon (or whatever it's called) is like a necessary break; a chance for the caterpillar to grow into a butterfly capable of seeing the beauty of the light? i suppose it's the same with you power thing.

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, indeed i had a feeling you'd get it. My problem is sometimes feeling like the caterpillar instead of the butterfly, but over all yeah i dont think we were taught to take breaks well as children making the inner caterpillar(child) crave isolation more than the butterfly(adult) would crave light and new experiences or something like that. Working on enjoying the necessary breaks in life i guess is the goal there as a defense agaisnt being overwhelmed by the light.

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

@Bubblegumgabber,
oh. i've just realised i can apply this to my life so well - cause the last few days i haven't stressed much. i've given myself a break. and today i was out on the water and everything was just so beautiful.

i think sometimes you have to take a break from the light to appreciate it. i agree wiht the goal. i don't think you can see the light clearly when you are overwhelmed by it. we should be taught to take breaks, because we need them sometimes.

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, beauitfully put. I beleive that would be the answer. Do you fish or is it just enjoying the bob of a boat if i may ask?

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

@Bubblegumgabber,
im not sure if i understand? metaphor ? but if you mean what i THINK you do, then my answer is the bob of the boat. Probably would be nor matter what the subject in question is to be hinest.

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, oh i was being literal lol i was wondering what being on the water meant and yes always be honest.

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

@Bubblegumgabber, dang. I was confused so i assumed you meant something i didnt quite understand.
I just meant i went in the sea today i dotn do anything much haha - osrry idk the right words. I went SUPing today - it was cool.

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, oh that is cool ive never been at sea and would love to one day.

3 years agoReply

This reminds me of… well, suicide (TW for this comment, by the way.)

Like, the feeling of “die or live” when a person doesn’t wanna live nor do they wanna die. So they constantly just wonder how to flick rthe switch that determines their action and their life.
…. I’m… pretty sure I just stated the obvious XD

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

that's what i was going for. kinda, well, not when i started but halfway through.
that is the feeling i was trying to convey, so it's good to know, thanks

i need to check if the tw i put in the main bit covers this

3 years agoReply

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