As Below, So Above III

So said someone who was born in Seoul, moved to the US as a child, grew up in Los Angeles, then after a lifetime there came back to Seoul and now lives as an American expatriate...

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In A Somber Mood

Yet another image that reminds me of the "Isle of the Dead" paintings by Böcklin. 

Vanitas

"VANITY... ALL IS VANITY"

Melancholia

Lately

I've been sick the last several days.  For a time I was in such pain I could barely stand up straight.  Actually it was a repeat episode of something that's happened before;  and even though it's mostly cleared up now, I suspect some underlying cause needs to be identified and resolved, or it may keep coming back.  I've decided to make an appointment to see my doctor at the soonest opportunity.  It's long overdue anyway; it's been a long time since I've been checked out.

But that's not the whole of the problem.  I think there's a spiritual component to my being unwell.  The fact is, I'm depressed.  I have been, for a long time.  I keep up a front at work and with the few people I socialize with, but I've retreated so deep inward, and gotten so used to it, that now sheer inertia is keeping me there, even though there are no locks on the doors.

Inevitabilities.  Things that I exercise no control over but care about and that affect me.

Inexorabilities.  Just watching events unfold.  Wanting to be in control, but all the same, keeping back and out of the action.

Having Too Many Heads

Can really be a drag, because each head would come with a mind of its own.

Right Now

I'm going through one of those "I wish I weren't so ___..." funks.  This one rather fits the mood.

Just Plain Depressed

And sometimes I feel like this (RE: July 20, 2010):



And like this:

Bipolar

Sometimes I feel like one of these trees.

At other times I feel like the other tree.

And sometimes, both at the same time.