World Crushing Down

[dcentity2000]

Has anyone ever felt like their world was literally crashing down around them for the most petty of reasons?

The most minute thing, the silliest misplaced word - it can all snowball into a great avalanche of feeling. And I don't think that many people actually realise that.

In the thirteenth century, Dante Alighieri wrote a sonnet entitled "A ciascun'alma presa" about an encounter with a beautiful girl he had when only nine. He wrote the following:

"I write this piece of poetry for any soul taken by love and any noble heart,
so that they may write me back their opinion about it. I greets our lord, that is Love.
Love itself appeared suddenly to me when one third of the night had already passed.
If I think back about it I'm frightened.
Love seemed cheerful while bringing in its arms a sleeping woman wrapped in a cloth and in its hands my heart.
Love then woke her up and she ate this burning heart; it then went away crying."
This is a free prose translation from the Latin/Italian

The mere sight of the girl had caused Dante to become so overwhelmed with emotion that he had to retreat from public and fell into a deep sleep wherein he described the emotion of love appearing to him.

Dante wrote this sonnet many, many years after he saw the girl and years after the two of them walked their different ways.

My point is this: we don't always appreciate how the smallest things can have the greatest impact on the people we hold dear. I think maybe we should.

Does anyone else feel the same way? Have you ever felt the world crash down for even the silliest reason?



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[mum4jenn]

I agree. It is strange how one word(or afew)however simple it might be can either hurt someone or make them feel better.

 

[Ilove8Trax]

Yes, i have felt this way before; but more to the point where i am bothered or annoyed and not quite crashed. Sometimes, someone will just look at me for too long (like my mom) and it will completely bother me. I do try to live by enjoying all those simple moments along with the big ones. Many people do not however and it causes effects/affects on the people around us. I enjoy the idea behind Alighieri's piece. It can be overwhelming how something or someone makes us feel (in both directions) and that's something almost unexplainable. I especially love when it is a person that makes us feel alive or revived and urge us to go on.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I try not to sweat the small stuff. There's too many big things going on! But on occasion, if there's too much big stuff, even the addition of a tiny thing will push me to the edge.