Pushed away: Lard
“Anything spare goes straight back out. I don't keep a cushion.”
It prevents any surplus from accumulating, spending down, giving away or otherwise disposing of whatever would have become a reserve, so that a life that earns adequately never has anything behind it. A denigrating household established that this person was not the sort who ends up with a store, and holding one would contradict a finding that has never been reopened. What it asks for is one reserve allowed to sit untouched for a season.
It echoes Sudama, who walked a long way to a friend who happened to be a king, carrying a small twist of flattened rice, and stood in the doorway unable to bring himself to hand it over or to ask for anything. The form implies a task: to hand over the rice and to say the sentence after it.
- Essence
- The Unallotted
- Rule
- I was never going to be one of the people who had anything put by.
- Substance / Activity
- Lard
- Archetype
- Sudama
- Emotional theme
- Non-deservingness expressed as the refusal to accumulate
- Behavioural pattern
- Abundance- and success-avoidance; surplus disposed of before it can become a reserve
- Family dynamic
- Denigrating, dysfunctional household that established the person's ceiling early
- Core wound
- I was never going to be one of the people who had anything put by.
- Exit
- Letting one reserve sit untouched for a season.
What is the "Pushed away: Lard" pattern?
It prevents any surplus from accumulating, spending down, giving away or otherwise disposing of whatever would have become a reserve, so that a life that earns adequately never has anything behind it. A denigrating household established that this person was not the sort who ends up with a store, and holding one would contradict a finding that has never been reopened. What it asks for is one reserve allowed to sit untouched for a season.
What does "Pushed away: Lard" sound like when it shows up?
Anything spare goes straight back out. I don't keep a cushion.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Lard"?
It echoes Sudama, who walked a long way to a friend who happened to be a king, carrying a small twist of flattened rice, and stood in the doorway unable to bring himself to hand it over or to ask for anything. The form implies a task: to hand over the rice and to say the sentence after it.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.
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