Hm, that make sense. I think in a way that it would be really lovely, actually, to be that intensely close to someone You see, that's how I feel too, and it's what I want, but I would still want to feel like there was a tiny part of each of us that belonged to two separate people, because otherwise I'd just be loving myself and I would want to feel the connection to another soul. I know it sounds soppy, but I want to feel like two souls had melded into one soul, rather than one soul being split between two bodies. Which is probably related to the fact that I get embarrassed when I imagine myself being emotionally involved with someone in the same way I cringe when I think of my family being involved like that with anyone. That suggests an unhealthy level of objective detachment from myself doesn't it? Hmm. *shrug* lol
how the love they have is often viewed as unhealthy because it's so obsessive and they've cut off other parts of their lives for it. And I remembered you saying that you didn't agree with that view Do you mean that I was saying it's unhealthy for them to be that close or that I don't agree with people having the view that it's unhealthy? I do vaguely remember us saying something like that and saying that it doesn't matter if they're in their own world cos who says the 'real' world is any more real or important... I could be remembering wrong.
I could see that as simply a childlike, innocent thing just as easily. I think that's what I believe about them. I think they're just very very innocent at the moment. It's funny though, in The Dreamers, the first time I saw it, I didn't even consider that it wasn't sexual because it seemed so obvious that they were using Michael as the go between for their acknowledged sexual need for each other without breaking societal rules, but then after a few watches, I felt like it was because they wanted to maintain what actually was an innocent childlike attachment and way of communicating that society and possibly nature was forcing them to end.
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You see, that's how I feel too, and it's what I want, but I would still want to feel like there was a tiny part of each of us that belonged to two separate people, because otherwise I'd just be loving myself and I would want to feel the connection to another soul. I know it sounds soppy, but I want to feel like two souls had melded into one soul, rather than one soul being split between two bodies. Which is probably related to the fact that I get embarrassed when I imagine myself being emotionally involved with someone in the same way I cringe when I think of my family being involved like that with anyone. That suggests an unhealthy level of objective detachment from myself doesn't it? Hmm. *shrug* lol
how the love they have is often viewed as unhealthy because it's so obsessive and they've cut off other parts of their lives for it. And I remembered you saying that you didn't agree with that view
Do you mean that I was saying it's unhealthy for them to be that close or that I don't agree with people having the view that it's unhealthy? I do vaguely remember us saying something like that and saying that it doesn't matter if they're in their own world cos who says the 'real' world is any more real or important... I could be remembering wrong.
I could see that as simply a childlike, innocent thing just as easily.
I think that's what I believe about them. I think they're just very very innocent at the moment. It's funny though, in The Dreamers, the first time I saw it, I didn't even consider that it wasn't sexual because it seemed so obvious that they were using Michael as the go between for their acknowledged sexual need for each other without breaking societal rules, but then after a few watches, I felt like it was because they wanted to maintain what actually was an innocent childlike attachment and way of communicating that society and possibly nature was forcing them to end.