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Posted by Somatization on June 29, 2004, at 21:37:59
There is a goldfish in a fish bowl.
He swims back and forth all day and all night.
All the people conduct their daily business around him without notice.
The people feed him and assume he is happy. After all, he has everything he needs to survive.
So he just swims back and forth.
He wants to leave the bowl, but knows he can't.
Every second of every minute of every day he sits in the bowl.
One day he flips himself out of the bowl, he is free but he can't breathe.
At his second to last heartbeat, a person sees him.
The person puts him back in the bowl, sees him swim, then walks away.
The person assumes he is okay...after all...he is back in the bowl and has everything he needs.
Posted by snapper on June 29, 2004, at 22:02:04
In reply to The fish in the bowl, posted by Somatization on June 29, 2004, at 21:37:59
maybe it would be easier to be a fish.Things as a human sure have not been working out to well.It should'nt be this freakin hard to just exist!Breathing, and being alive certainly is NOT an easy task! Why does life have to hurt this bad?
snapper
Posted by gardenergirl on June 30, 2004, at 1:37:24
In reply to Re: The fish in the bowl » Somatization, posted by snapper on June 29, 2004, at 22:02:04
Just keep swimming, snapper. Just keep swimming.
((((snapper))))
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Posted by fallsfall on June 30, 2004, at 8:30:03
In reply to The fish in the bowl, posted by Somatization on June 29, 2004, at 21:37:59
Incredibly powerful.
Posted by Jai Narayan on June 30, 2004, at 20:13:06
In reply to Re: The fish in the bowl » Somatization, posted by fallsfall on June 30, 2004, at 8:30:03
I can see my indigo betta fish swimming in my third eye.
I was recently sick with a fever and wanted to swallow my fish.
I wanted that color and life to be inside of me.
I didn't do that....thank the goddess....but I am in awe of the fish consciousness.
My fish is so cool.
Posted by tabitha on July 1, 2004, at 0:08:09
In reply to The fish in the bowl, posted by Somatization on June 29, 2004, at 21:37:59
I feel so sad reading that. Are you the fish?
Here's another fish song, it's not quite so sad
They say goldfish have no memory
guess they're lives are much like mine
And the little plastic castle
is a surprise every time
And it's hard to tell if they're happy
but they don't seem much to mind..
Yee-haw!--Ani DiFranco
Posted by fallsfall on July 1, 2004, at 8:01:43
In reply to The fish in the bowl, posted by Somatization on June 29, 2004, at 21:37:59
Somatization,
Did you write this? It so perfectly expresses my feeling of isolation - isolation from being understood.
I spent much of yesterday, and I'm planning on spending some time today working with your words. I have reformatted them so that the text is in the shape of a fishbowl. I will print it in blue writing on slightly mottled off white paper (unless I can find some off white paper that is just barely tinged with gold). I got an unfinished pine shadowbox which I will (hopefully) rag black tempura paint on (the outside world is dark and murky and dull, the depth of the shadowbox shows my distance from the world). I'll try to get the paper laminated with something with just a little gloss (representing being trapped, unable to breathe).
Will I have the courage to show this to my therapist today? I don't know. My current (severe) crisis is a result of my rage at feeling that he wasn't understanding me, while he professed with conviction that he was. Maybe I can show it to him, but I don't know if I can talk about it today.
I hope that it is OK with you for me to do this project with your words. It will hang in my bedroom - reminding me that someplace in this world I *am* understood. If this isn't OK, please let me know. I'll give you credit on the back.
Thank you, Somatization, for your help in so clearly expressing my world.
P.S. Babblers do fairly well at understanding - and I appreciate that so much. And when I tell a Babbler that they *aren't* understanding me, you guys don't tell me that I'm wrong - that you *do* understand. This means so much to me. Thank you, Babble.
Posted by Somatization on July 1, 2004, at 20:48:59
In reply to Re: The fish in the bowl » Somatization, posted by fallsfall on July 1, 2004, at 8:01:43
fallsfall, you may use my words. I wish I could see the finished project. I think you "get it" and I would love to see your visual representation.
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