I start to think ANY two mental states can coexist.

[flexagon]

So. It seems a person can truly love something and still (desperately) need a break? This has the ring of an aphorism, one that I never really believed in, one that someone probably told me as I rolled my young eyeballs to the ceiling.

Related: one can truly love something and also have nightmares about it.

Related: loving and being angry.

Related: love and hate themselves can coexist. But you knew that one, everyone knows that one.

Comments

[randysmith]

Don't the other three follow from the last one?

*sympathies*

[flexagon]

Nah... I don't think hate is that broad,* and I'm only feeling the first one, anyway.

*for me. Probably for some people it is.

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

Can't have love without knowing the opposite, so yup...I agree with ya.

Breaks can be good so that you can regain what you loved about "whatever", and not get caught up in the things that take away from it.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Hugs. Sounds like a rough patch.

[soong.livejournal.com]

burnout happens. I once had a passionate hobby I did M-W-F for too many months and had to cut back to one night a week and even took a whole month off once, but it's still out there and I still like it and have fun when I go.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Sounds complicated.

[flexagon]

Not really. I just need a break from the acro scene. :)

[miyyu.livejournal.com]

I think almost any two mental states can indeed coexist. The human mind is really good at allowing emotional paradox. It's annoying.