Love Objects

Trying to start a conversation with a tree is easier than trying to talk to an unresponsive person. Trees, after all, respond telepathically! All I have to do is sit down and think a thought at that tree and it talks right back. You might call this active imagination, but it can be lots of fun and sometimes even a bit intriguing.

People, on the other hand, are expected to respond on their own. If they simply answer my questions, they are being polite, but not particularly effusive. I could use active imagination on them too, but it doesn't feel right to do that.

I cannot and would not want to force someone to talk to me who wasn't in the mood, but sometimes I sense that their mood is such, that a good conversation might perk them up. Try and tell that to someone who is a little morose, or depressed. They don't believe it. It reminds me of a children's song about the Grand Old Duke Of York that said, "when you're up you're up and when you're down you're down."

Down can be like a black hole, it just sucks the life right out of me. If it happens to be one of those times when I am "in love" then all is well, because all I need to do is connect with, or think about my love object of the moment. Other times are not so easy. For instance, if that proverbial love object is also down, we are in a world of hurt.

All I can do for me then is to write. I write the stories I want to happen, or the story of what is happening and life goes on. Eventually the light returns and things seem brighter and that is all it takes. If I perceive that life is better, it feels better, and gets better.