Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-27234079-20200111162942/@comment-35434444-20200116195615

Glitchee123z wrote: Oh, damn. No no -- now you're just playing dead! You've got to be dead for real!

Death is the source of life. If you dmit from the outset that you're a bad writer, then you have the energy to be a good writer. If clench up tight, ban everyone you don't like, hide your name, and act like a tough authoritative Youtuber, at best you'll be just like everyone else and evaporate into obscurity.

At worst, you'll gain media attention and corrupt thousonds of unfortunate souls into being just as hard, brittle, and insecure as you are.

"In birth, man is supple and tender. In death, he is ridgid and hard."

In this example, life and death swap places. The goal is to be alive through sensitivity. If you try to avoid pain, the effort itself will be painful, thus only compounding the pain. If you give in, the body's own natural responses -- it's Legendary Godzilla system -- will take over and dissipate it.

So you find balance through a combination of dying to yourself and becoming alive to the world around you.