“The power to reason can be dulled when we fail to detach ourselves from the emotional content of a problem.” (ODAT, February 3)
Involvement makes me dumb.
If I see darkness in a problem, I’m seeing my own darkness.
I then try to solve the darkness out there.
That never works because I’m carrying the darkness within
me.
Darkness compounds darkness.
This is the dumb: the sombre nodding at the darkness of the
world.
So I disengage, detach, and see the comedy.
When I can laugh at it, the storm in the teacup reveals its
nature.
It’s not a hurricane. It’s not a typhoon.
It’s much ado about nothing.