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Unreciprocated Respect

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence as action, affect without reward, anti-redemptive stance, asymmetrical respect, boundary setting, chosen exile, cold-clarity, deliberate withdrawal, dignity without reciprocity, emotional abstinence, emotional discipline, emotional finality, emotional irreversibility, emotional minimalism, emotional severance, emotional-austerity, ethical distance, ethical solitude, existential posture, existential walking, existential-motion, inward consent, love as decision, love without claim, moral asymmetry, moral closure, moral-refusal, non-attachment, non-transactional love, post-romantic ethics, posture over feeling, quiet departure, refusal of consolation, refusal of hope, rejection of virtue, renunciation, self-authored guilt, self-condemnation, self-exile, self-naming, self-negating affection, silence as boundary, stoic rupture, unreciprocated-love, unsentimental-love, unshared affection, unsparing honesty, walking metaphor.

Unreciprocated Respect “If I love you, I want nothing from you-not even your love.”
-In common usage, this is performative humility.
People quote this line and feel grateful,
as if it captures pure selflessness.
When I say it, I mean it absolutely: Read more from here...

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Sing — 07 Feb 2005 by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 2005, aftermath, aging, archival writing, authenticity, boundaries, confessional poetry, crossed-out poem, diary poem, distance, early twenties, emotional clarity, emotional discipline, endurance, first-love, growth, handwriting, Heartbreak, history, Indian college, longing, longing without consent, loss, memory, naming absence, paper artifacts, plea, private writing, Refusal, refusal to send, regret, repetition, restraint, restraint learned, Ronie, self-awareness, self-command, silence, solitude, song lyrics, testimony, time, unrequited-love, unsent letter, voice, vulnerability, waiting, witness, yellowed pages, youth melancholy.

Sing — 07 Feb 2005 Sing,
sing for me,
I am waiting for you.
Oh, it doesn’t rain now;
everything just seems Read more from here...

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The Birthday Cake

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, Agency, birthday, Birthday Cake, cake metaphor, Choice, confessional poetry, consent, contemporary voice, cultural specificity, desire and refusal, emotional discipline, ethical restraint, existential ethics, extended metaphor, fragility, guilt without blame, hunger, intimacy without possession, Intimacy., longing, loss, memory, minimalist ethics, modern lyric, naming as violence, narrative poem, non-consumption, philosophical poetry, quiet defiance, Reciprocity, recognition, recognition without ownership, refusal to explain, relational power, restraint, restraint over catharsis, self-possession, silence as agency, silence speaks, symbolic object, trust the reader, unresolved tension, unspoken language, vulnerability, withholding meaning.

Title - The Birthday Cake Part I - The Crime of Questioning Like a criminal wiping fingerprints from the scene,
if you are still asking yourself
was it right or wrong,
was it a mistake, Read more from here...

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I Did Not Take

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, boundary, consequence, denial, desire, dignity, emotional discipline, Ethics, Integrity, loneliness, loss, masculinity, memory, moral-line, Refusal, regret-without-pity, restraint, self-respect, separation, silence, solitude, Take, time, unchosen, unreciprocated-love, youth.

Title - I Did Not Take She told herself it was no big deal-
to touch a friend with too much fire,
to pour her lust like cheap appeal.
I never urged her, never once.
I held my line. I stood my ground. Read more from here...

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I Am Me

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, anti-enlightenment theater, anti-illusion, anti-mysticism, character over belief, clarity without comfort, consciousness, emotional discipline, Existential identity, existential resilience, humanism, inner jurisdiction, inner strength, Integrity, moral autonomy, non-theistic philosophy, personal responsibility, philosophical realism, psychological sovereignty, self-authorship, self-definition, self-knowledge, stoic realism, walking forward.

Title – I Am Me I am not this, not that, not even that either.
Look closely: necessity has forced me to become everything,
testing the depths of this nothingness.
I am all of the above-and still nothing at all.
Life did not choose isolation for decades; Read more from here...

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