Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and
you especially have to be hurt like hell before
you can write seriously. But when you get the
damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
- Ernest Hemingway
Hmmm.....love the quote, it is very expressive and I am sure he experienced the pain to muster the words in the first place. Some shocking words that opinionated many I am sure. Words full of shock and awe.
Mr. Hemingway wrote these words out personal knowledge and perhaps some venting but it was advice we can break down.
Forget your personal tragedy.
Good luck with that....lol It is good to laugh at the first sentence is it not. : )
We have to move on from that personal tragedy for sure but forget it maybe just not dwell on it. Move it to a corner of our heart and mind and let other things fill in the space. Things that are helpful to ourselves and others, no drugs, no overeating, no getting full of intoxication.
Unless the intoxication is one of faith, hope and love.
Move on from your personal tragedy....yes. Move on.
We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously.
A bit cynical here, 'bitched from the start' hmmm.... I don't know about that we all learn the same way from experience and our family mostly our mother and father I assume he is explaining. So if indeed he had a broken heart or troubled spirit from the start yes I guess you can say it 'bitched him', hard words but maybe thats how he felt and he expressed it that way for sure.
My own childhood was very stressful, overprotected, mentally abused, used as a pawn, witness to my mothers physical abuse. These things were very painful caused me to become very passive, a survivalist of life, and perhaps opens me up to being taken advantage of in matters of the heart. Perhaps....
I don't really like to dwell on the past, it only shows what has happened.
I like to live with love, with kindness, with the passion of making a difference.
I feel a positive energy is all the difference in a world of hurt and fear that slows some down and others grinds them to a halt.
If you looked at Mr. Hemingway's bio he also served. He served in the Red Cross in World War I , he served his local communities with work at the newspapers and he served us well by his works of art, his written word. He made a difference for sure.
But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
He closes with when you get that or the not really sure that sounds better in that sentence you use that hurt, you don't cheat it.
To me that means use that frustration that pain, that hurt and don't cheat yourself or others by trying to numb it away, hate it away, don't ignore the hurt. Use it.
How many times do you see a parent create something out of a death of child. It happens almost every time. A new law, a not for profit organization that teaches kids and adults not to drive drunk.
A walk for a child that died to get other people aware of the disease/illness that took a child's life much to early.
It moves people to action when we use that hurt.
It makes a difference those support groups that help in the healing.
Don't cheat yourself out of healing. Use the hurt to heal.
Another step in making a difference in this world is to heal it. But you have to use all the resources. All the words no matter how much they sting, you use them to shock, to awe, to explain the hurt.
Smiles to you as always..... Smiles to you : )
10/11/11
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