Reached for: Game Shows
“It's harmless. I get a few hours where somebody's life turns around and I feel some of it too.”
Satisfaction is taken secondhand, in bright small doses, from watching other people win. The retreat began in a family whose emotional traffic was punishing and strictly literal, so a private world of instant uncomplicated pleasure became the only survivable address. What it asks for is one thing wanted on one's own account.
Urashima Taro, welcomed into the palace beneath the sea and kept in delight while everyone he knew grew old on shore. The form implies a task of surfacing before the years are counted.
What is the "Reached for: Game Shows" pattern?
Satisfaction is taken secondhand, in bright small doses, from watching other people win. The retreat began in a family whose emotional traffic was punishing and strictly literal, so a private world of instant uncomplicated pleasure became the only survivable address. What it asks for is one thing wanted on one's own account.
What does "Reached for: Game Shows" sound like when it shows up?
It's harmless. I get a few hours where somebody's life turns around and I feel some of it too.
What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Game Shows"?
Urashima Taro, welcomed into the palace beneath the sea and kept in delight while everyone he knew grew old on shore. The form implies a task of surfacing before the years are counted.
want to see your own?
create your cipherspace — free.want to work with it over time?
upgrade to the field.This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.