I wish there was something I could do with the things sacred to me other and more than love them.

Do you know this feeling? You are reading, late at night perhaps, you would like to save and record and print out copies to cover every surface of some room of your house, and still no-one would really care.

i read this thread title on the op like four times and i still dont understand one fukken word of it

fyi u could always take her to the movies or sumthin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwW4Vvp1YnY

ecstasy: it's a hell of a drug

what a strange non sequitor

whenever I see a sunset I want to go jump into it, but I can't it's a sunset

i think i know this feeling.
it haunts me pretty much every day.

I've started to wonder if anything's sacred to me anymore, not sure there's much point.

Anyway.

there are lots of things sacred to be but most of them are not tangible.
what do you do with that?

You shut your eyes and hold your breath, and wait....

i would die.

then u could do the haunting!@

lol

Lamp - you cannot take a play, a photo to the movies. That is the problem! If I could say to the videogames I grew up with: you and me now are going to get wasted and talk about girls and the broken bones of the heart: this problem would not exist.

Steve that is useful advice. WK always is!

Or the friendship I had with, the summer I spent with.

What a lovely question to ask. Yes, the transcendent things, the ones that make me feel over-full and overflowing with stuff that is way bigger than I. I don't know. Taking a cue from great literature, I guess I keep all these things and ponder them in my heart.

I once felt this way about "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson.

You could become a graffiti artist, painting homages to videogames & the lessons of love & memory.

there's a reason the buddha said clinging is the source of suffering, guys

http://twitter.com/Karl_Lagerfeld/status/1999462076

Jenny I once had that with "Steppin' Out" too!

If I am on the same wavelength as Gravel here, it's a sort of lonely and otherworldly feeling. But one of the richer things in life, too.

Feel this all the fuckin' time. This what makes me cry when I'm at my desk with my headphones on, from happiness plus inability to dissolve and merge with the thing I'm loving.

These feelings are definitely one of the reasons my life is worth living. I'm not sure what 'god' is, but I always feel like these moments are between me and 'god'.

This only starts to make me uncomfortably neurotic if I go too long without working on my own creative projects.

Yay Abbot! It is really kind of a transcendent song.

I kind of thought the internet eliminated this kind of phenomenon? It's kind of liberating not feeling the burden to stand tall for the greatness of garbage pail kid cards and microwaving soap volcanos anymore.

It's perfectly ok to just love the thing. No more is required, unless the thing is in danger of harm and there is some way for you to protect it - but then, that would go right along with loving it to begin with, so it goes without saying. Just love it. and be grateful it is there to love.

good thread topic

im trying to get better about forcing people to listen to music im freaking out about

"im trying to get better about forcing people to listen to music im freaking out about"
do you mean better = more restraint or more craftiness?

ha--more restraint. it never works out the way you want it to u know--you make them sit down and play them the song btu theyre never as into it as you are.

see i think this less about stuff like music and physical things and more about like, feelings. like morning light coming through the blinds and making things warm and glow and it feels like time stops. or staring up through a tree canopy and watching the light play and leaves dance. but you can't really bottle it up or explain the feeling or share it. you can only love it and bask in it, but then it's gone. which makes it more special, probably, but you just wish there was more you could to embrace it and show your appreciation of it.

you can't keep 'em, they would lose their magic.

i know, i know. i don't want to keep it. i just wish there was more i could do to maybe help others feel what i feel and spread the magic? i don't know.

Are you saying this can't be expressed cinematically? Movies are pretty versatile!

Just love the things you love, and the world will be a better place.

yeah, music, feelings, stuff like that

tbh the only solution i have to the implied question in the title is "write about these things"

cinema doesn't even come close
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like tza i am thinking of certain "omg full of stars" moments but music can definitely induce feelings of numinous awe & wonderment

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."

Ah, yes, I definitely know this feeling. You all will be totally unsurprised to hear that my problem is this desire to verbalize it -- to talk or write and capture how I feel about it -- and then I wind up frustrated by the impossibility of ever entirely doing that. You can't just package the feeling in words and hand it over to someone else to look at.

i think youre right nabisco but one of the most exciting things about writing is the possibility that you might engender a similar feeling in someone else!

not to show them the thing; to show them what it feels like to feel it as you, right now, up too late.

Well yeah, it certainly don't stop me boring the hell out of people trying! It's just funny when you feel that bottleneck, like there is too much behind a feeling to get started untangling and explaining it all.

(Often when this happens to me with music I resort to doing like mime, interpretive lip-syncing, and running commentary to try and act out what I love about a song.)

these moments are really the only times i ever feel "prayerful" and it's mostly a "close yr eyes and give thanksgiving to the cosmos" type of feeling

(Abbot's post is right, for me - lonely/otherworldly/rich - it's good how people feel different shades of this; different shades of solipsism, different degrees of optimism about it)

I don't mean to say 2001: space odyssey can fully replicate the feeling of actually going into space, but it can surely convey the idea and share this idea as it is felt by Kubrick, so it shouldn't be out of bounds for anyone to convey their POV for quiet leaf-dancing moments (and probably a lot less expensive!)

you guys need to read the symposium

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8179/kateri10.jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5969/kateri.jpg
http://i28.tinypic.com/2v1u9gg.jpg

I can't tell if you guys are clowning or not but if not, the ninth Duino Elegy is where it's at.