15 January 2015

Awaken...



You live like this, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
Then you read a book, or you take a trip, and you discover that you are not living, you are hibernating.
The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness.
The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. 
That is all.
It appears like an innocuous illness.
Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it.
They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children.
And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.
Some never awaken.

photo - Louis Stettner / words - Anais Nin




4 comments:

  1. Very thought provoking and pertinent.

    Jean
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  2. Hmm, very thought provoking
    Hugs

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  3. That Anais Nin, she sure could turn a pretty phrase, but you can tell she didn't have children - oh, for a bit of peaceful hibernation!

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  4. Sounds really scary!!

    Have a good weekend!

    Madelief

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