BitterlyAlive_
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- Dec 8, 2020
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Here's three words, ideas, concepts for the day:
• Saudade - a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves.
• Sehnsucht - a German noun translated as "longing", "desire", "yearning", or "craving". Some psychologists use the word to represent thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences.
• Hiraeth - a Welsh word for homesickness or nostalgia, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret. The feeling of longing for a home that never was. A deep and irrational bond felt with a time, era, place or person.
Neither word really captures this vague shit feeling, especially not saudade, but they're things to think about I guess. It doesn't seem spiritual/religious, it's not an environmental issue, it's not something I can really pin down to anything in particular. Just a vague, deep, exhausting psychogenic ache. Feels like I'm rotting, all the time. It's stubborn and defeating. Lonely. There is no joy, satisfaction, or pleasure; there's only this pain.
Please feel free to write your thoughts, feelings, whatever. About this post, your life, your day, etc.
** copied and pasted the descriptions at the top from Wikipedia, too exhausted to work it out in my own words.
• Saudade - a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves.
Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations. However it acknowledges that to long for the past would detract from the excitement you feel towards the future.
• Hiraeth - a Welsh word for homesickness or nostalgia, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret. The feeling of longing for a home that never was. A deep and irrational bond felt with a time, era, place or person.
Neither word really captures this vague shit feeling, especially not saudade, but they're things to think about I guess. It doesn't seem spiritual/religious, it's not an environmental issue, it's not something I can really pin down to anything in particular. Just a vague, deep, exhausting psychogenic ache. Feels like I'm rotting, all the time. It's stubborn and defeating. Lonely. There is no joy, satisfaction, or pleasure; there's only this pain.
Please feel free to write your thoughts, feelings, whatever. About this post, your life, your day, etc.
** copied and pasted the descriptions at the top from Wikipedia, too exhausted to work it out in my own words.
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