Thursday, August 30, 2007

That Vague Suicide Feeling, pt. 2

Justice by chad™

As I get further away from this feeling, I think I understand it a little more. It's an emotional response to the cosmic injustice of my wife's death. The feeling translates into, "I don't wish to participate in a system that took her away from me."

But it is also a measure of how disconnected I was (am) from the really hard realities of life. This "universal injustice" happens every hour of every day to someone on the globe. I've been participating in it since I was born.

It's solipsistic to see my wife's death as unjust. Justice has nothing to do with it. Justice is a human construction, not a Universal one. Suicide as protest doesn't work when there's nothing against which to protest.

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