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mourning or masking?
Nov. 13th, 2021 02:28 pmsometimes i have this scene playing in my head (i think i saw it in a movie a while ago)... in it there are a professional group of "mourners"... a group of people who were actually paid to walk in in a funeral procession, wailing and moaning... in the scene i see mostly these twin girls (i think they were orphans who were supporting themselves)... and i see the girls getting on their knees, moaning and rubbing sand into their hair....
i have no IDEA where the hell i saw this, or what sort of movie it was in, but i know that it was set in ancient Egypt... have any of you heard of doing this? (rubbing the sand in your hair)...
and btw, i see this scene whenever i hear of a death of a human (as though the Collective is reminding me), and i think about the girls moaning/rubbing-hair and how they actually didn't even know the person that was getting buried... it makes me think about so much of the "visible" mourning of the living might very well be for public-relations (this is obviously NOT true for all the crying mourners, many of the tears are genuine)......
never forget, that when someone you love dies, however you are feeling is COMPLETELY correct for you... don't ever feel obligated to shed a tear to prove to the world that you care about them... crocodile tears (or affectations of sadness) at funerals, or when speaking of a departed love one, are *very* nauseating for us empaths (and don't forget, we e's are more numerous than you would think) bs"d
i have no IDEA where the hell i saw this, or what sort of movie it was in, but i know that it was set in ancient Egypt... have any of you heard of doing this? (rubbing the sand in your hair)...
and btw, i see this scene whenever i hear of a death of a human (as though the Collective is reminding me), and i think about the girls moaning/rubbing-hair and how they actually didn't even know the person that was getting buried... it makes me think about so much of the "visible" mourning of the living might very well be for public-relations (this is obviously NOT true for all the crying mourners, many of the tears are genuine)......
never forget, that when someone you love dies, however you are feeling is COMPLETELY correct for you... don't ever feel obligated to shed a tear to prove to the world that you care about them... crocodile tears (or affectations of sadness) at funerals, or when speaking of a departed love one, are *very* nauseating for us empaths (and don't forget, we e's are more numerous than you would think) bs"d
