Thursday, November 25, 2010

"I knew that Ivy, like every woman, really only wanted to know what I felt - or thought, if I didn't feel anything."

Max Frisch, Homo Faber

While recognizing that this is horribly sexist, I must point out that I find this to be true. I constantly want to talk about how I'm feeling or you're feeling or if neither of us are talking or together I think about what I'm feeling or you're feeling. This of course is an absolutely terrible way to live, this constant assessment, how am I feeling at the moment. I would prefer to think in terms of activities like, I will now do this activity or that activity. Things I am not saying: I would really like to see you this weekend.

1 comment:

Krista said...

I think I know what you mean. I feel like I constantly want to talk about how I'm feeling or figure out why I'm feeling the way that I'm feeling and then I get frustrated that I don't know how anybody else is feeling to the same obsessive degree.