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The Academic Archaeologist's avatar

Fantastic read, I loved it!

F. H. Petkovich Abascal's avatar

My pleasure! It means a lot to me.

Neena Nair's avatar

Thank you for a beautiful piece of writing.To know and recognise our many monsters is the first step towards overcoming them and healing our world.Thank you for this thought

F. H. Petkovich Abascal's avatar

It makes me so joyful when people like my writing!

Iva Levarre's avatar

"The monsters are still out there; we just made them nameless and, in a way, far more dangerous."

The power of naming monsters, or darkness, reminds me of the danger in the positivity trend in our culture. Social media is saturated with messages that serve to cover up, rather than address, life's difficulties. While thinking positive thoughts is not in itself damaging, we can go overboard with this and avoid our problems. Admitting that we are in a negative mood, for instance, can actually help us to move past it. I have found that pretending it is not there only strengthens it. When we "name the monster," so to speak, that is, acknowledge it, we begin the process of defeating it.

F. H. Petkovich Abascal's avatar

I agree, becoming obsessed with only the positive side makes the negative one much stronger once it hits.

If we are not addressing life’s difficulties, we are not being complete, functional adults.

Tamar Shengelia's avatar

We are children of enlightenment, that choose to come out of caves , out of hiding and reach for the light… yet darkness lurks within us, that’s why it is so enticing to invent monsters and get acquainted with them in recognition of that scary part of our primeval psyche…

F. H. Petkovich Abascal's avatar

We can’t escape the darkness within; we can only face it and accept it if we are not to be secretly controlled by it.

Tamar Shengelia's avatar

Exactly, that’s why myths are studied by philosophers, historians, linguistics, sociologists and psychologists