Tag is preachy.
"However Erikson’s final stage isn’t leading the individual into another stage, but into death; and is, in essence, a preparation for death and acceptance of the inevitable. His maladaptation for this stage: despair, refers to complete failure, the failure to lead a worthwhile life and the realization that we now face death with no chance to make amends for the things we have not done."
This assignment was BORING THE LIVING CRAP out of me until I wrote the above paragraph. Suddenly I am interested, but that interest is quickly crushed as I remember I can't expand on this within the rigid, completely moronic structure of the assignment outline.
But it's paragraphs like that that make me think: "YES! This is what great novels/movies/TV shows are made of. This single moment of truth."
Read that paragraph again, imagine you are going to die tomorrow, and tell me it doesn't scare the living shit out of you. That IS despair. That IS terror.
“[We have] no chance to make amends for the things we have not done.”
This assignment was BORING THE LIVING CRAP out of me until I wrote the above paragraph. Suddenly I am interested, but that interest is quickly crushed as I remember I can't expand on this within the rigid, completely moronic structure of the assignment outline.
But it's paragraphs like that that make me think: "YES! This is what great novels/movies/TV shows are made of. This single moment of truth."
Read that paragraph again, imagine you are going to die tomorrow, and tell me it doesn't scare the living shit out of you. That IS despair. That IS terror.
“[We have] no chance to make amends for the things we have not done.”