Is Gluttony Chastity's opposite?
Am I inside my creed?
Is my humanity meaningful,
Without a satiated need?
What do you make of deprivation,
If I call it fasting?
What do you call loneliness,
When it is everlasting?
My steps make echos on the road.
People follow, when I'm long gone.
The mouth, now smaller than the body.
Why so very different here?
The risk of sate, a formidable fence.
Let every action be clear.
Do you think the opposite of love is indifference? (I buy that perspective more than “the opposite of love is hate” but even so... I’m not sure. As an example, you should listen to/watch this music video: https://youtu.be/cZaJYDPY-YQ that seems like he’s trying to express indifference but considering how much time and money that all must’ve took... methinks he doth protest too much. Maybe there’s no escaping love which is at the heart of all of our passions (I’d bet anyway)). And I wonder if the “formidable fence” is a “formidable fear”... i keep reading it that way. Do you think fences/fear get in the way of all actions being clear? Or does it just add another layer to be seen/understood (ie more fodder)?
ReplyDeleteI think it's more the layer option. Fence or fear, it's an encumbrance, or at least a delay.
ReplyDeleteI could entertain that the opposite of love is indifference, though many a bible scholar has translated Hebrew and Aramaic words for "love" into English as the word "Chastity," so a part of me is saying that the opposite of love is gluttony.
Maybe sometimes, like if you don’t think you have enough in you to not leave the other person/people empty. But a big part of me wants the kind of love where you both gobble each other up. Being chaste forever certainly isn’t love because it’s very nature is “abstaining”- which means you’re avoiding part of the other person, never knowing them (or yourself, or the relationship) fully.
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