This is about a couple who have been together for a long time. They have over a decade together. They love each other, but there are problems just like everyone. They are troubled and that they come from families where there was pain and needs and longing. So they grew up with grief. It didn’t just arrive when somebody died. They walk around side-by-side with grief all the way through life. They feel the pain of that grief and never really leaves them.
It is precisely because they have felt the nearness and presence of grief that they turned to the outlet of an evening out in the city and entertainment to provide some sort of balance. This isn’t a new thing either. Back when they were younger night clubbing was a daily or frequent ritual. Dressing up with a big part of going out. It was never a dreary grey effort. There is something about going out which seems to be life affirming. The effort goes into and the love of the surroundings and elevated atmosphere is profoundly therapeutic. Although they used to go out a lot almost like a professional club going couple. They have a sort of understanding that if you go out a lot, it isn’t always something that you enjoy. It can be tinged with sadness. It can be an empty experience. It just depends.
But on this occasion it’s a while since they’ve been doing that regularly. And reconnecting with that nightlife is a way for them to connect with this life affirming part of themselves. It’s an affirmation of life. It is an affirmation of their appearance. And of making themselves beautiful. So it goes far beyond a simple night out. It’s about making oneself into the best one can be. Celebrating one’s life.
It’s like refusing to be ground down by things.
So they decide to step out. The act of Doing so is an act of kindness to each other.
the warmth and depth of the experience isn’t lost on his partner who is weeping. they are reconnecting with a more innocent part of themselves.. they are cleansed of some ugliness either in their life or the past when they dress up and fare forth into the night. it is like a reclamation of the soul. The innocence and the beauty of the moment and of what the night out means is what they are feeling as they sit on the cab looking at the lights through the window.
He is basically explaining to us that these seemingly superficial things can be profoundly therapeutic profoundly generous acts of love towards oneself. It is about the depth of choosing glamour and beauty in evening surroundings. That it is not always a shallow thing when one does this. That glamour and beauty can touch the soul and lift the soul sometimes when needed.
This is about a couple who have been together for a long time. They have over a decade together. They love each other, but there are problems just like everyone. They are troubled and that they come from families where there was pain and needs and longing. So they grew up with grief. It didn’t just arrive when somebody died. They walk around side-by-side with grief all the way through life. They feel the pain of that grief and never really leaves them. It is precisely because they have felt the nearness and presence of grief that they turned to the outlet of an evening out in the city and entertainment to provide some sort of balance. This isn’t a new thing either. Back when they were younger night clubbing was a daily or frequent ritual. Dressing up with a big part of going out. It was never a dreary grey effort. There is something about going out which seems to be life affirming. The effort goes into and the love of the surroundings and elevated atmosphere is profoundly therapeutic. Although they used to go out a lot almost like a professional club going couple. They have a sort of understanding that if you go out a lot, it isn’t always something that you enjoy. It can be tinged with sadness. It can be an empty experience. It just depends. But on this occasion it’s a while since they’ve been doing that regularly. And reconnecting with that nightlife is a way for them to connect with this life affirming part of themselves. It’s an affirmation of life. It is an affirmation of their appearance. And of making themselves beautiful. So it goes far beyond a simple night out. It’s about making oneself into the best one can be. Celebrating one’s life. It’s like refusing to be ground down by things. So they decide to step out. The act of Doing so is an act of kindness to each other. the warmth and depth of the experience isn’t lost on his partner who is weeping. they are reconnecting with a more innocent part of themselves.. they are cleansed of some ugliness either in their life or the past when they dress up and fare forth into the night. it is like a reclamation of the soul. The innocence and the beauty of the moment and of what the night out means is what they are feeling as they sit on the cab looking at the lights through the window.
He is basically explaining to us that these seemingly superficial things can be profoundly therapeutic profoundly generous acts of love towards oneself. It is about the depth of choosing glamour and beauty in evening surroundings. That it is not always a shallow thing when one does this. That glamour and beauty can touch the soul and lift the soul sometimes when needed.