Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Artavius Post #2

After reading The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi, I found it very educating under the section from Ch. 3 entitled Shame. The chapter was very enlighting. While reading I noticed a true statement I myself learned from my past. Levi gave me a better understand on what exactly it was. The way he described it as an Anguish. Which means sever mental or physical pain or suffering. He said;
“One can think that one is suffering at facing the future and instead be suffering because of one's past; one can think that one is suffering for others, out of pity, out of compassion, and instead be suffering from one's own reasons, more or less profound, more or less avowable and avowed, sometimes so deep that only a specialist, the analyst of souls, knows how to exhume them.” (Levi 71).

I found this so true today. Like I stated earlier I had those same symptoms. Having Anguish is something very serious, and should most defiantly be treat for or get help. I think back and remember my high school years and how much I went through mentally, physically and emotional. I really was on the verge of suicide because suffering was so intense that the only way I felt to get away from it all or ease my pain was to kill myself. But after getting help and knowing how to control my emotions when a type of pain happens makes it so easier to get past the suffering so much faster.

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