2009-04-07

Tension of tension

I feel a lot of tension now.
I'm tempted to call it fear,
but fear of what?
What is this fear?
Maybe it's just tension,
and the real fear is to feel it.

2 kommentarer:

Visa Vägen sa...

Most likely. :-)

And making that insight, there's always the possibility of accusing oneself of not being "good enough" to feel through the tension. But isn't that accusation just a way of justifying that one avoids feeling the tension...? And so the self-accusation becomes a way to conserve the tension; a defense mechanism.

Tension is just another word for defense, isn't it? Which is just another word for energy... And what good does it serve to name its various forms?

Yet, we do it. :-)

/Svante

Anton Larson sa...

Svante,
Such an accusation serves to conserve the tension, yes. Actually any way of actually relating to the tension does. But it habitually just happens anyway.

And words... Well, why not use them? It's not in the words anyway.