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Thursday, September 28, 2006

solitude of self

On women's rights:

"The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of minda nd body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life."

And from the closing of the article:

"Whatever may be said of man's protecting power in ordinary conditions, amid all the terrible disasters by land and sea, in the supreme moments of danger, alone woman must ever meet the horrors of the situation. The Angel of Death even makes no royal pathway for her. Man's love and sympathy enter only into the sunshine of our lives. In that solemn solitude of self, that links us with the immeasurable and the eternal, each soul lives alone forever. A recent writer says: 'I remember once, in crossing the Atlantic, to have gone upon the deck of the ship at midnight, when a dense black cloud enveloped the sky, and the great deep was roaring madly under the lashes of demoniac winds. My feeling was not of danger or fear (which is a base surrender of the immortal soul) but of utter desolation and loneliness; a little speck of life shut in by a tremendous darkness...'
And yet, there is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced...
Such is individual life. Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?"

what do you think of this my cheekygirls? inspiring or frightening?
i wish i could surrender to someone or something who'll take on my burden of life, but i cannot find self-dignity down that path, and so.. you guys will hear me whine the rest of my life =)

disastrous day today reaffirmed decision to drop a class and take a breather from empty hectivity.
but i still crave steely discipline.. and toned abs hehe but neither'll be coming anytime. no more last-minuteness though! no more falling from fatigue while crossing the street. and especially no more unpleasantness or crying when things get just a bit too rough. wow i can't stand how pathetic i sound.
SHUT ME UP
chim will have energy to play with you when you come, shup.
ok this has to be the sign of madness

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