Windy Ridge at Mt St Helens facing away from the mountain. It is like a toothpick factory up there.
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About Me
- Jillene
- Trying to finish pharmacy school with just a little bit of sanity. We will see how that turns out...stay tuned! Until then just keep swimming.running.studying or whatever gets me going that day...
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Diary entry 1: "My favorite yet creepy"? How can that be? That seems to almost be an oxymoron. Favorite - a very positive word, obviously something you like and care for very much. It makes you happy and feel warm and secure inside. Creepy - eerie, spooky, unsettled, agitated, all negative feelings. How can it be your favorite but creepy at the same time? Very intriguing.
Diary day 2: Let's look at this. I see a few different intepretations of your contradictory dyad. Let's first deconstruct the actual two concepts being discussed here.
Your "favorite" song, for example, is a song you would likely describe as "great". (you could also use favorite foods, movies, et cetera. "great" is the superlative of "good", so we can say that "favorite" approximates "great", and "great" is a greater "good", so really, "favorite" is also an extreme example of good.
On the other hand, "creepy" is defined by Webster as "annoyingly unpleasant". It's not much of a stretch to go from "annoyingly unpleasant" to "bad", is it?
So now we've stated that saying "my favorite yet creepy" is a quasi-oxymoron, stating, essentially, that good=bad, a statement that we know is false.
Problem solved, right? Q.E.D. We can't do it. This cannot be your favorite but also creepy. I will sleep well tonight!
Diary day 6: Several tortured nights and haunted days in a row. I have seemingly solved the favorite/creepy dilemma, but still cannot shrug the massive weight of "favorite yet creepy" off the shoulders of my mind. I must go meditate.
Diary, day 8: I've made a discovery today...I don't think it's the final answer, but it may be leading me somewhere in the general direction of the truth. With books open and brain struggling to absorb morsels of collective wisdom from Kant, Nietzsche, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Confucius and Jung, an insight hit me like a lightning bolt:
Maybe, for the writer, "bad" can mean "good".
Does a masochist not love pain and suffering (which are obviously "bad")? Does a hypochondriac "love" to feel "bad"? YES. For a subset of people, good can indeed equal bad. This is an amazing discovery, but I can't stop here - I know there is infinitely more truth and wisdom buried under "my favorite yet creepy."
Day 24: What a journey this has been. I am now at peace. I have tasted of the truth of the "my favorite yet creepy" and my eyes have been opened.
You see - and you won't understand this, not fully, but it will help you on your spiritual journey, good IS bad and bad IS good. good is also NOT bad and bad is also NOT good. Good IS. Bad IS. Favorite IS. Creepy IS. A "creepy" movie, a generally unpleasant, bad thing, can cause a group of friends to experience intense emotion and bond. A disturbing. A "creepy" picture can be thought-provoking and a learning and reflection opportunity. A single "creepy" picture can remind us of the plights of others and teach us empathy towards all humanity. There are so many possibilities, so many permutations, so many open variables swirling around...it takes my breath away...
But I'm getting ahead of myself...just know...know that my long, hard journey has shown me that we'll never know everything and that we already know everything...and that all the good, bad, evil, joy, love, justice, mercy, hatred, temperance, hate, and truth in the universe are all different facets of the same entity...an entity with more dimensions than the human mind can fathom...an all-encompassing truth that can best be described as....
"my favorite yet creepy"
Live well, children...the journey has just begun...
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