Tobolowsky musings

Some thought's on Stephen Tobolowsky's podcast on "Heart. Broken."

"What is so awful about being lost isn't really where you are, but when you are. It's an issue of time more than location."

-When we are lost, literally or mentally lost in the deep dark corners of our own minds, you look back on what was THE MOMENT that brought you to where you are now, lost.
-Does even thinking of being "lost" in actuality take one further from being "found"? One thought closer, two steps away. Struggling to get free of quicksand only makes you more stuck. Slowly, but surely to sink down, down, down. Once you've dug 6 feet down, why not just build a coffin too?

"I needed to be my own Skinny Man and wallop myself in the head"

-If the power of our own minds can put us into a never ending cycle of self-deprecation and everlasting depression, we can have the strength to live life with love and happiness.
-Psychiatry and Therapy are only as useful as the patient makes it. A forced discussion with yourself. When not able to alone, with a second guiding party, one can express and free the thoughts keeping them down. That or talk themselves back into a whirlwind of negativity.

-All in all when pained, it is always a question of time. "When will I get better? When will something good happen? When will I make the decision to change my life?" Then we look for the how. "How will I get better? How will something good happen? How will I make the decision to change my life?" But really, do we have control of any aspect at all? Perhaps to not ask questions, and to give over to the forces at work. An entire world of people's choices affect our daily lives. What choices of ours have an effect on others, especially those we love? Only Time can tell the answer.

- Dylan