i'm watchign this movie "nine lives." it's pretty good. it's these 9 vignette's about 9 different women whose lives are a little fucked up and who fuck up their lives a little bit. And in the end, as with all movies that are written by latinos, they are all interconnected in some strange, unexpected way because aren't all all interconnected? anyways it got me thinking sometimes how life is just really sad. And sometimes it's directly sad and sometimes it's indirectly sad when we witness the sadness of others. And even if we are happy, seeing someone else's sadness can bring us down but also make us really appreciative of our happiness. One time orges told me "i found this book called the prophet while in prague! it's so amazing." and i said that i knew it and had read it because my mom read it to me. Anyways he quoted it to me
you're joy is your sorrow unmasked
this movie got me thinking about that. you can't have one without the other because they mutually constitute each other. Sometimes life is really awesome, and we are reminded of how wonderful it is because of the bad times we've had. And sometimes life is shit, and the shittiness becomes apparent when we compare it to the good times.
you're joy is your sorrow unmasked
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i kind of feel like life is really amazing, even when it is sad, and the sadness is really just part of the amazingness, because isn't it amazing we can feel sad and feel unhappy and still be living and doing things and talking to people about them and about being sad? that's kind of an alternate reading of the same line.
on a more shallow note, i love that you said that joy and sorry mutually constitute each other because, seriously, what a psychology student you are.
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