Absence Of Feeling Is Simply Not A Viable Course Of Action

Have you ever wished you didn’t have to feel anything?

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The Diagnosis

Heartbreak is one of the most powerful feelings a human can experience. Much has been written in songs and poetry and prose, but it is hard to faithfully convey what heartbreak feels like to someone who hasn’t felt it. The loss of appetite, the lack of sense of direction, the cold despair that takes hold of you — everything falls short to describe what it truly is to be heartbroken.

I’ve read stories of people forced to exile and dying of heartbreak for lack of a better diagnosis. Anyone who has experienced it knows that it is a possibility: while the shock of a lost relationship is something most people will recover from, the loss of a way of life, of everything that one holds dear and, more than anything else, the subsequent state of emptiness are more than most humans can withstand for any prolonged period.

Pragmatic Absence Of Feeling

In my teenage experience of heartbreak, I remember the first time I wished I wouldn’t have to deal with feelings. Indeed, feelings constantly get in the way. It’s their thing: you had a solid plan, but feelings blew it to smithereens before you realised it. For anyone with the ambition of doing something…