To slight is to ignore or treat as unimportant.
To disregard is to ignore or treat without due respect.
To neglect is to fail in one’s duty toward a person or thing:
To overlook is to fail to notice or consider someone or something, possibly because of carelessness.
Oxford Dictionary
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”
― Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life’s seasons.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Stones make no splash on a frozen lake.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides
Loretta G. Breuning Ph.D.: “When you feel socially slighted, you can easily find evidence to “prove” it. You can point to evidence that you’ve been wronged, neglected, disrespected, undervalued, misjudged or abused, so you think you’re being objective. But our brain is designed to find what it looks for. You have ten times more neurons going into your eyes than you have coming out of them. That means you are ten times more equipped to tell your eyes what to look for than to just take things in “objectively.” You are not conscioulsy trying to prove you’ve been slighted, but neurochemical ups and downs prompt the brain to find evidence to explain them.”
This Friday’s clouds were not exceptionally magnificent. The rays caused by the rising sun – slightly visible behind them – caught my attention, though. Those are the rays of sunlight I have neglected, and had pushed aside in order to make my clouds the most important objects of my permissible, miserable life. The hot summer sun now returns with a vengeance, and its rays remind me of my weaknesses, casting light on the shortcomings that scared him away. What a fool I am; trying to find an answer to an impossible question. Slightly…..
Slightly? Singularly! My life is now an overwhelming realistic objectivity – clearly visible in the bright sunny sky.
I thankfully look up at my safety net of clouds hiding the bright rays from my current status of divorcee. Slighted!
The beauty of what is around me has always influenced my life in a magnificent way. This is the reason for my clouds, and perhaps the explanation for my foolishness. Searching for answers in my sky of clouds was exceptionally difficult the past week. My mind reminded me of the cruel reality of the sunny day. I foraged for my heart in the jungle of a cloudy sky, but was confronted with my mind instead. As the neurons searched for evidence and explanations at the back of my brain, it sent messages to my aching heart. The magnificence of the clouds in the sky are connected to the neurons in my eyes, and these that are connected to my brain. This impossible concoction is why I am forever trying to objectively find the fault within myself.
My situation is positively and objectively a cruel, socially slighted reality.
I have to face the fact that I cannot force the stone in my mind to make a splash on the frozen lake of this reality. I will have to wait patiently for the warm sun to appear from behind my utopian clouds and melt the ice of my cold heart.
Celestial Limininality 