And I Searched Behind Your Eyes, Pg 1B
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Most people have a bit of a masochistic streak in them.
By the way, whenever I see a character who has a sleep…ailment(such as Jen releasing the Lady whenever she goes to sleep), I always imagine how much worse it would be if said character was narcoleptic.
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I think I see what the Lady is trying to say. The dead don’t share the concerns of the living because they see how silly they are. How limiting that perspective is. A lot of them don’t think the material world is worth their time at all… but if the dead could help the living to transcend their limited perspective, the living would be able to get so much more from the world of sense and experience…
Something like that. I guess that’s what the Lady is trying to do, isn’t it? But she seems rather cynical in her approach.
Albert: I agree with you in respect to the Lady’s message. BUT the last comic with Fang+his spirits conveyed teh opposite message! the extinct spirits and Fangs wife seemed very much to want to be alive! The Lady didn’t take their limited life away 🙂
xcal, that’s assuming that they truly knew what they wanted. Have you never heard the phrase “be careful what you wish for”?
It ties into the Buddhist conception of “grasping”. We are so desperate to hold on to this life, so consumed by the fear of losing it, that it ends up only bringing us suffering and thus we fail to really get anything meaningful out of it. Yet there is still that instinctual urge to grasp onto it desperately, not because it is so wonderful, but simply for the sake of the grasping itself.
@Vex Godglove: I’ve never heard it explained the way you did (“grasping”), but it really does make sense.
I think that people ‘hang on” to life for many different reasons. Some don’t want their loved ones to feel sorrow, so they hang on as long as they can.
Others are waiting for a certain event (holding their first grandchild just once before they die, etc.).
Others are just so afraid of the concept of “nothingness” that they do “grasp” onto this life- no matter how much pain they are in or how horrible their quality of living is.
Personally, as someone with not one, but TWO chronic illnesses which left me disabled at age 31- for the rest of my life- wish for death pretty much on a daily basis just so I can escape this pain. I feel trapped inside a broken body.
However, my loved ones want me to go on living, in spite of how much pain and fatigue I suffer day after day. I continue to live for them, not for myself. I’m not really even living anymore- I’m basically just “existing”.
I want what The Lady seems to bring to those who really want it (whether they consciously acknowledge it or not).
I wish she lived in my neighborhood LOL
MeOw!
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I love her last line because it’s so familiar, I wrote a poem entitled “Eyes of a Goddess” and the last line is “and the earth still had her in its grasp.”
I am loving this comic so far, I chanced upon it a few days ago and am working hard to catch up!
Kiddiss, from my perspective, you seem to have much yet to offer the world, which includes your loved ones.
So far, that’s the one point of view I’ve failed to see proferred on these comment pages.
As a mom with chronic disabilities (caused by the pregnancy 15 years ago that gave me so much to live for), I can tell you that although I’m primarily housebound, I’ve learned the hard, harsh way that to wish for the next step in my existence (which, of course, would mean leaving my loved ones behind me in this plane) is inherently selfish. So pain and difficult mobility are my daily companions (some days these companions are more immersive than others)? So what? I’ve found that it is a small price to pay to watch my daughter grow up with her mother’s steady presence reassuring her of how valuable, precious and lovely she is (and always will be), to share a bed and companionship with my husband who’s been amazing considering he married one woman, then rapidly found himself bound to a dramatically different one, to be there for my friends who need a sounding board or shared convo, and finally – to enjoy my rich life and hope for as long of a future with these treasured people as God sees fit to grant me.
When I do move on to the Spirit World, and am able to meet my grandparents and see certain loved ones once more, yes, I’ll find relief in the cessation of pain and having physical freedom, but I’ll have to watch my still-earthbound loved ones from afar, unable to interact with or to reassure them as the need or want arises.
So, you see, I realize I have much to offer, even in my changed state, as do you, Kiddiss, from what I can determine having read your comments thus far.
I’ll continue reading (both the ever-better ‘Twilight Lady’ and the comments), and I hope to see more from you and a few others whose comments I’ve come to enjoy and even look forward to. 😉
As a side-note to Mr. Chen, whose work has brought so many together, I look forward to reading and learning the years of your work I get to experience. Thank you for your fantastic effort, I hope you find rich rewards and joys as you continue to undertake this web-comic.
– A
Last comment for today’s strip – I got a Gravatar *pretend music notes*!!
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