Reached for: Bagpipe
“The gloom is familiar, almost comfortable; I'd hardly know myself without a good reason to be low.”
It shows up as an attachment to gloom, a depressive dourness kept on like a family inheritance, the melancholy stance of a glum, puritanical household worn as one's own settled outlook. The lowness is genuine and it is also loyal, a way of keeping faith with the mood one was raised inside. What it asks for is to let one thing be simply, uncomplicatedly good.
Jaques, who found in every scene a reason for melancholy and preferred the shade of his own gloom to any company's mirth. The form implies a task: to stay for the good part of the play.
- Essence
- Betrayed Order
- Rule
- Gloom is what I was raised inside, so I keep faith with it.
- Substance / Activity
- Dourness, gloom, the melancholy stance
- Archetype
- Jaques
- Emotional theme
- An inherited attachment to gloom
- Behavioural pattern
- Depressive dourness held as a settled outlook
- Family dynamic
- A glum, gloomy, puritanical household culture
- Core wound
- Gloom is what I was raised inside, so I keep faith with it.
- Exit
- Letting one thing be simply, uncomplicatedly good.
What is the "Reached for: Bagpipe" pattern?
It shows up as an attachment to gloom, a depressive dourness kept on like a family inheritance, the melancholy stance of a glum, puritanical household worn as one's own settled outlook. The lowness is genuine and it is also loyal, a way of keeping faith with the mood one was raised inside. What it asks for is to let one thing be simply, uncomplicatedly good.
What does "Reached for: Bagpipe" sound like when it shows up?
The gloom is familiar, almost comfortable; I'd hardly know myself without a good reason to be low.
What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Bagpipe"?
Jaques, who found in every scene a reason for melancholy and preferred the shade of his own gloom to any company's mirth. The form implies a task: to stay for the good part of the play.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.