I edited two posts and think the reasoning is worth sharing.
We often mistake cynicism as wisdom. Certainly I have for a long time. That if you can see through the seams all of the pain and futility most people get through each day then you’re somehow in the know and that’s subtly cool, that you can see through the smoke and mirrors. Where you can paint the bathroom all bloody because that’s how life is: but it isn’t at all. Sure, it is, but it isn’t the totality.
Despite all of things that happen, there is a silver lining lurking, even if such linings are present before and after tragedy. I’m not diminishing what happens at all, but I’m sure most tragedy participants don’t wish to swallow others up in the darkness, the negative, unless there’s something you could hopefully change.
Some of the wording and ideas I gestured toward were fundamentally negative. Although it may show that, yes, I am aware of the sadness, talking about it doesn’t do anything. The band I originally linked is quite depressing at best. Sure, you shouldn’t shut those emotions off, but not willingly seek them out either.
Here, the gambit is this: either you stand in a pool of blood oozing from the pulp of your ripped out heart (you don’t feel anything anymore) or you continue to have a heart. If you are going to have a heart, it is within your interest to surround yourself with positive energies unless you’re a masochist. Such a thought is almost cringy to you depending on your current polarity — a linear pole from negative to positive we all got in terms of our emotive complex.
If it is cringy, then this is where a band like Los Campesinos! is awesome, because brings your polarity up by meeting you where you are. They’re still negative, but a higher form of such negativity because of how they approach some topics. The lyrics are awesome. They say, “yes, this is happening, we’re there too, here’s what we think” – to show you aren’t alone, which’ll set off your movement to go up and move beyond it.
The reality is this: if you continue to mingle with negative, you’ll be negative. So you aren’t being cold by pushing yourself away from such energies; there is a lot of negative stuff out there that we’re mostly powerless as just one person to fix. We’re better off by building up a reservoir of positivity that ignites others, that heals, that ushers in something new. If you’re going to deal with negative stuff, then there better be a tangible action that makes stuff better, not just talking about it. Otherwise you’re just stuck and sad — having a tangible action will expunge some of that sadness: because you’re in control, things’ll get better.
Seeing as I wasn’t actually doing anything, I wasn’t offering any solution, there was no need to bring up such things. So that’s why I edited those two posts. Because, just by reading the posts and listening to Los Campesinos! again, I felt my mood and energy brought down, down to my past self, and don’t want others to be pulled down. I would only recommend it if you’re already down, to pull you back up.
So, to close the dissonance, I’ll share this gem.
É o mistério profundo, é o queira ou não queira.
É a promessa de vida no teu coração.