Go to durbustweeb's page and check out that painting. THAT is how you do it, people. Hell yes. Introduce yourself while you're there, he's Quality.
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Smitten: To be smote, struck, a blow. Altered. Sent into sudden transition.
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Edit: My friend Stephanie used to always say, "if you have to hit someone, hit them with as much love and compassion as you can muster."
Sounds counter-intuitive, I know, but it accomplishes two things:
1. It reduces the amount of emotional harm you do yourself when you give someone a bad owie.
2. It recognizes and exalts your new role as The Object Lesson, and Harbinger of a Growth Opportunity.
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Physically, kinetically, what's happening when you really rail on somebody is that you are creating an energy pathway that goes from your ground (the earth, the sidewalk, the ring), into them, bounces off their ground, back into them, back into you, bounces off your ground, etc. This happens I don't know how many thousands of times.
If you've ever been fucking unloaded on by a good boxer, or if you've say, been kicked by a horse, or hit by an SUV and knocked into a three week coma, you probably have some experience of what I'm talking about-- a hundred thousand little white lights come on in your head and zip and zing around for a while, and then the tunnel vision and the whole world is going WUH WUH WUH WUH WUH and your legs go, "you know what, you dumbass? Fuck you, I quit. I aint never liked you anyway."
Being smitten is a lot like that, but more better. In general, my approach is as follows: it is better to be smitten than smote.
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Smitten: To be smote, struck, a blow. Altered. Sent into sudden transition.
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Edit: My friend Stephanie used to always say, "if you have to hit someone, hit them with as much love and compassion as you can muster."
Sounds counter-intuitive, I know, but it accomplishes two things:
1. It reduces the amount of emotional harm you do yourself when you give someone a bad owie.
2. It recognizes and exalts your new role as The Object Lesson, and Harbinger of a Growth Opportunity.
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Physically, kinetically, what's happening when you really rail on somebody is that you are creating an energy pathway that goes from your ground (the earth, the sidewalk, the ring), into them, bounces off their ground, back into them, back into you, bounces off your ground, etc. This happens I don't know how many thousands of times.
If you've ever been fucking unloaded on by a good boxer, or if you've say, been kicked by a horse, or hit by an SUV and knocked into a three week coma, you probably have some experience of what I'm talking about-- a hundred thousand little white lights come on in your head and zip and zing around for a while, and then the tunnel vision and the whole world is going WUH WUH WUH WUH WUH and your legs go, "you know what, you dumbass? Fuck you, I quit. I aint never liked you anyway."
Being smitten is a lot like that, but more better. In general, my approach is as follows: it is better to be smitten than smote.
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sfdeep:
the interesting thing about your statement is that having been hit proper -- many times in sparring situations and once by a car -- is that there is a similarity, but whenever i've been smitten i get a sort of sick feeling inside that i never get when having been smote. still, i have to agree.
marieceleste:
Are you smitten? One part of me is a little jealous, being smitten is such a pleasant state. But another part of me is no longer jealous, I'm practising being smitten with myself lately, and it's working quite well. 