Tormented Souls
A few good old friends described me recently as a "thinker but a tormented soul". Maybe it was because of some articles I wrote on my blog or all my years of exchanges with them. One went even further to say that "no one can write like that when they are happy". I wondered about the perception. Was it a compliment or a lament? Was it stereotyping since you would have read about writers who are drunks or tortured souls. I do not think so that I'm a tormented soul because tormented souls are bottled up like a spirited drink, like aerated water. Shake it a little, open the cap and all hell breaks loose as the gas inside will cause an equal of a volcanic eruption. If you are too close, you may get remnants of the larva flow or volcanic ashes. Tormented souls cannot be calm or cool under all kinds of situation especially extreme ones. Tormented souls are always in chains as they can't break free from whatever and usually are fixated or obsessed with cer...