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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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Ronie Dinosaur – The Unsold Man

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anger, anti-compromise, character, College Life, Defiance, detention, dignity, discipline, endurance, Existentialism, extinction metaphor, failure, fate, first-love, hunger, inner flame, Integrity, intent, labor, loneliness, man, masculine identity, Moral Spine., nonconformity, Outsider, personal mythology, poverty, Pride, rebellion, Refusal, refusal to kneel, rehabilitation, rejection, resilience, restraint, road narrative, Ronie Dinosaur, self-authorship, self-respect, silence, solitude, stoicism, strength, survival, The Unsold Man, truth, unreciprocated-love, Unsold, unsold soul, upright man, walking alone.

Ronie Dinosaur (The Unsold Man) (Verse 1) I loved at first sight, got laughed at by noon,
turned the pain into iron, forged muscle from ruin.
College crowned me king, girls kept my seat warm,
but the one who held my heart said, “No, that’s not the form.” Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 103 – Reflection: Love Without Witness

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: character and restraint, confessional poetry, dignity in love, dignity over pleasure, emotional asymmetry, emotional isolation, emotional restraint, ethical suffering, existential romance, failed intimacy, grief without spectacle, human limitation, inner discipline, internal-conflict, introspective verse, invisible love, literary introspection, loneliness and time, love, love and character, love as illusion, love without witness, memory and loss, modern tragic love, moral endurance, moral-loneliness, personal mythology, personal narrative, philosophical poetry, Philosophical reflection, poetic realism, poetic rejection, psychological depth, quiet heartbreak, reflection, reflective chapter, rejection poetry, restrained desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 103, self-awareness, silent devotion, solitude and meaning, time and consequence, time as witness, truth in restraint, unreciprocated-love, unreturned affection, unseen sacrifice, unspectacular love, witness, witnessless devotion.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 103 - Reflection: Love Without Witness I loved you with character.
I still do.
Love poured from the heart
spills as emotion, visible to all.
Love from the flesh 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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