Thanks so much for your input. Vile is a great word. Yet there are no words for the abominations that happen so often. It creates anger. No one wants to talk about it, which is a huge mistake. That leads to someone going off on innocent people. I believe that feelings of revenge must go somewhere. It doesn’t just disappear.
Revenge is DNA deep. You are so right about it not disappearing. Just look at history, not to mention what's happening in the real world today. Fiction capitalizes on this all too human characteristic: Virgil, Shakespeare, Dumas, Poe. Where would they be without undying revenge? Let's write more about it.
I am glad you are willing to talk about it. I tend to think the great fiction is simply hyper-reality. The stories reflect us well, just turned up to 10. I agree we must write about the ugly along with the happier stuff. We strive to be real whether writing fiction or non-fiction. Getting to the soul of matters is what makes some written work stand out and last longer than one generation.
Really thought provoking! Thank you. 👏 Speaking just for myself, I always found a good line being “processing” the emotions and “acting” on them. I do have/had the emotions of wanting revenge, but I give myself the okay for feeling those emotions. Once they’re processed, I can more easily let them go before ever believing acting on them would be to anyone’s benefit. So it’s kind of the recognition that I’m not a robot and feel things, and then saying “okay, but acting on them doesn’t help anything”. Revenge usually wouldn’t change my own outcome to the good anyway, it would just keep me stuck.😊
That’s a great attitude. You are likely very smart and responsible, and not everyone is. Maybe we are just pummeled by so many tragedies that people don’t feel anymore. I am most interested in how awful things happen that are both far away and close at the same time. I wonder if people just are too busy with whatever or if this subject is too messy and not the everything is happy and okay kind of story. But, I am
a proud overthinker, always. I wonder if you have any thoughts on that, or if anyone out there does. Thanks so much for the compliment.
Vileness without any meaning! That resonated with me. Perhaps that era of film prepared the way for our current state of existence.
Thanks so much for your input. Vile is a great word. Yet there are no words for the abominations that happen so often. It creates anger. No one wants to talk about it, which is a huge mistake. That leads to someone going off on innocent people. I believe that feelings of revenge must go somewhere. It doesn’t just disappear.
Revenge is DNA deep. You are so right about it not disappearing. Just look at history, not to mention what's happening in the real world today. Fiction capitalizes on this all too human characteristic: Virgil, Shakespeare, Dumas, Poe. Where would they be without undying revenge? Let's write more about it.
I am glad you are willing to talk about it. I tend to think the great fiction is simply hyper-reality. The stories reflect us well, just turned up to 10. I agree we must write about the ugly along with the happier stuff. We strive to be real whether writing fiction or non-fiction. Getting to the soul of matters is what makes some written work stand out and last longer than one generation.
Really thought provoking! Thank you. 👏 Speaking just for myself, I always found a good line being “processing” the emotions and “acting” on them. I do have/had the emotions of wanting revenge, but I give myself the okay for feeling those emotions. Once they’re processed, I can more easily let them go before ever believing acting on them would be to anyone’s benefit. So it’s kind of the recognition that I’m not a robot and feel things, and then saying “okay, but acting on them doesn’t help anything”. Revenge usually wouldn’t change my own outcome to the good anyway, it would just keep me stuck.😊
Good topic, thanks for writing about it.
That’s a great attitude. You are likely very smart and responsible, and not everyone is. Maybe we are just pummeled by so many tragedies that people don’t feel anymore. I am most interested in how awful things happen that are both far away and close at the same time. I wonder if people just are too busy with whatever or if this subject is too messy and not the everything is happy and okay kind of story. But, I am
a proud overthinker, always. I wonder if you have any thoughts on that, or if anyone out there does. Thanks so much for the compliment.