Resentments
What do you think of when you think of the word "resentments"? Resentments, according to Jean Amery, a Holocaust survivor, are not based in anger, hatred, revenge, or anything else like that. Instead, resent comes from loneliness. An extreme loneliness in which one is alienated from everyone and everything else. However, these resentments do not dissipate over time, oh no, they become a part of the man who contains them. His soul in tainted because of his separation, his mind at the mercy of the pain-inducing resentments that have cut deep into his heart - a cut that doesn't heal. Hatred, rage, depression, these feelings are merely the feelings and actions that originate from the unhealing wound: resent.
Imagine my surprise when these words came screaming out at me in the middle of my philosophy class...my words popping out of the mouth of a Jewish concentration camp survivor who committed suicide.
Many of you probly don't know how my life was before Feehan, who I was before Feehan. And chances are, you never will. But I've been thinking a lot about my past recently, and not because of what happened in my philosophy class. And the above passage will probly be the best hint I could ever give.
I've talked beyond my comfort zone for one reason only. Jean Amery, the man who helped me, I pass his words on. He deserves at least that much, I feel.
Imagine my surprise when these words came screaming out at me in the middle of my philosophy class...my words popping out of the mouth of a Jewish concentration camp survivor who committed suicide.
Many of you probly don't know how my life was before Feehan, who I was before Feehan. And chances are, you never will. But I've been thinking a lot about my past recently, and not because of what happened in my philosophy class. And the above passage will probly be the best hint I could ever give.
I've talked beyond my comfort zone for one reason only. Jean Amery, the man who helped me, I pass his words on. He deserves at least that much, I feel.