Post by Cass Baumer on Nov 19, 2022 1:00:49 GMT -5
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“‘They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.’ The internet misattributes that to the mysterious artist Banksy, but the real quote’s been said by Irvin D. Yalom in a book of his called Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy. Here’s how it goes:
‘Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?’
That misinformation, that circulation of bad information… It tries to make Irvin D. Yalom die twice.
Now, I don’t know if Irvin was a good person… just like how I don’t know if Mark Evans is an incredible fighter making his grand return or a curtain jerker jerk who’s never successfully done a suplex in his life… but I know he doesn’t deserve to be forgotten like that. My brother, John Baumer, doesn’t deserve to be forgotten like that. I don’t deserve to be forgotten like that, but eventually, I know it’s gonna happen. I’m expendable. I’m a cog in the machine, to be replaced by the next cog shiny and new.
Tearra Skye is a perfect example. No matter how hard I train with legends like Josh Kennedy, FM Young, Seth Iser, Lash Donohue, and a handful of others who never crossed the paths of OCW, she still blew me out of the water.
Frankly, that scares me.
I know I’m better than that, though. I know my urge to not be forgotten is far more than Mark Evans can hope to achieve.
If I’m a cog, I’m about to grind him to a screeching halt.
I know one thing, though:
I won’t die twice.
At least not today.”
“‘They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.’ The internet misattributes that to the mysterious artist Banksy, but the real quote’s been said by Irvin D. Yalom in a book of his called Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy. Here’s how it goes:
‘Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?’
That misinformation, that circulation of bad information… It tries to make Irvin D. Yalom die twice.
Now, I don’t know if Irvin was a good person… just like how I don’t know if Mark Evans is an incredible fighter making his grand return or a curtain jerker jerk who’s never successfully done a suplex in his life… but I know he doesn’t deserve to be forgotten like that. My brother, John Baumer, doesn’t deserve to be forgotten like that. I don’t deserve to be forgotten like that, but eventually, I know it’s gonna happen. I’m expendable. I’m a cog in the machine, to be replaced by the next cog shiny and new.
Tearra Skye is a perfect example. No matter how hard I train with legends like Josh Kennedy, FM Young, Seth Iser, Lash Donohue, and a handful of others who never crossed the paths of OCW, she still blew me out of the water.
Frankly, that scares me.
I know I’m better than that, though. I know my urge to not be forgotten is far more than Mark Evans can hope to achieve.
If I’m a cog, I’m about to grind him to a screeching halt.
I know one thing, though:
I won’t die twice.
At least not today.”