Yesterday's post has rekindled some very old emotions in me. Very basic emotions.
If I were a professional actor and needed to make myself weep on stage, you may be surprised at the trigger-thought would be for me to make it happen.
It is the image of deliberately locking an obese man in a room and denying him food. That's it.
The notion of denying children food until their bellies are distended and their legs go rickety would be - unthinkably - not my first choice as a tear jerker. The reason for this is that although I know it happens all the time and all over the world, I find it so incomprehensible that it hardly seems real to me.
A very fat man in custody weeping because he is denied a hamburger has a much more profound effect.
What a fucking world we live in.
I can understand this,it is forcibly prevent the source of ultimate comfort from someone,may be it is also the moment when someone who seems to us strong is collapsing because of weakness.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feel so sorry for Goliath even if David is my hero.
DeleteThere are beastly people in this world who have no compassion or empathy for others. They convince the weak of mind to go along with them.
ReplyDeleteSometimes psychopaths get the upper hand.
DeleteFor me, Tom, it's water. When I woke from that induced coma a year ago, you can't even imagine how dry my mouth was (a month with no water!). I called for it, over and over. Sometimes they brought it, and laughed at me for pleading.
ReplyDeleteThat is just as sad to me.
DeleteMay be a bit simplistic Tom but children with their distended bellies are starving and need food to survive. Many obese adults are comfort eating for one reason or another (I could easily get into the habit of eating some foods for this reason now that I live alone. The reason I don't is because I am too vain. I might be in my eighties but I want to keep my figure.)
ReplyDeleteI love you Weave. Be vain if you want too. Age is no excuse for "letting yourself go" as they say. You are an inspiration and I'm probably only about 15 years behind you. xxx
DeleteThat is why I am surprised that the thought of it affects me so.
DeleteThere is no reason to be troubled by what trigger you use on stage. Nobody is to know it in any case. What we think society expects of us does not reflect the world accurately.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel guilty about it, just surprised.
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