We dream don't we? Where is the line between turning away and the butterfly dream? Unreality as a mirror. Creating a little world / Entering someone's world:
Can have Tension and Release with just the sweetness and without the bitterness? Like the SOTE trailer: joy in anticipation and in the thing itself (and afterward)... Or even just music, the tension is also sweet. Is there tension and release in a painting? The full picture is present to you at all times.
Going into the light at the end appears scary. Somehow being comforted by the dark doesn't. The light can be overwhelming, the dark can be cool shade.
Oh so much joy, an artistic work that gives inspiration. That gives joy of anticipation, joy of the thing itself the fullness of a good story, and the joy of afterglow with the things it gives you - the best of all to bring it with you. A thing that makes you want to keep unraveling it! A thing that wants you to make your own creations!
We hate repetition and doing the same thing over and over again. We hate going way out of our comfort zone to totally strange things that are overwhelming. We like something we are familiar with that has a bit of a twist. We are always moving just a little bit into new territory, not too quick, not too slow. balance, balance, balance
Self-hatred has come to great popularity in a post-ironic way, while Narcissism has been taken by facebook conspiracy theorists. Rejecting those definitions and taking it in an individual way, self-hatred as personal mirror disgust and narcissism as the disgust people feel looking at a person who seem to be mythological like Narcissus. It is apparently common knowledge that both are destructive mindsets, yet it seems like the remedy to each leads to the depths of the other, where is the balance? There are two ways I have learned so far. The hermit who forgoes themself, while living purely in perception and dissolving the self. Or, in love you can love yourself in the context of loving someone else, 'Cause when I see me through your eyes I love me, so don't leave my side'