Avengeful and Revengeful Benefits in the Land of Purgation.

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Fantasy Horror Suspense


How are you?

How have you been feeling?

High on yourself.

Low on yourself.

Or somewhere in between.

Waiting for a “buzz.”

Of some kind anyway.

In the land of the holding pattern, are you?

Too afraid to change

Too tired to, too.

Euphoric maybe.

Feel as if you have been spending a little too much time in a purgatorial state of mind?

Spending time in purgatory, till either the story changes. Or we do.

Change.

Decide to change.

Our ways.

Our means.

Purging along side the river banks to see how much we can take it, stand it, out-mind and maneuver another.


Can’t we all just get along?


Perhaps you prefer the slow burn method.

Of showing your arch enemy, frenemy and the like,

Who is the boss.

Of them

Of revenge.

The fun thing about this time of year, is we are allowed to freely talk about all this dark-seeded stuff and blame it on the effects of the holiday, the holiday spirits😳🍷🥂🍻🥤🧋🍺🥃🍸🍹🧉🍾.👻☠️👹👺🤡


And there are many, many floating high and floating low.

Where it stops, Lord only knows.

And he does.

Know.

In the meantime, as the majority of us take up camp in the land of Purgation. It is worth it to consider, Linda Blair may have been right all along, onto something even.🤢🤮


Better out than in.



If you are going to tempt fate, now may be the time, of year.

Halloween is just days away.

The ghosts.

The ghouls.

The goblins.

Busting at the seams.


Btw. I AM talking about the adults, not the kids😁


The kids get a pass, this time of year, a wonderful, sugary pass.

Of erratic and goof ball behavior in the race to the top of the sugar high of life. The crash will be felt. By one and by all.


When it becomes ever more difficult to look in the mirror.

What to do. What to do?

Blame it on the other guy?

The spirits flying high and flying low.

For what is staring back.


We can aspire to catharsis. Instead of always trying to bring the other guy down. It is worth a notion. A notional consideration. Final purification of the elect, entirely different from the punishment of the damned.(wk)


Yeah. I get it. Punitively. My existence has actually been denied. More than once. Like.Wow. I am not even here, a blip in the radar. Except, of course in the land of Purgation, where I was allowed to ebb and flow at the whims of others. It was, how shall we say,


”comfortable.”

Even felt. Used to.

Not enough tools in the toolbox to challenge it.

And some just pounced.

To their glorious content.


POUNCED!

DENOUNCED!

UNANNOUNCED!


Yeah. That about described the experience.


No wonder this time of year, we collectively pray for the dead.😳

Will the one who wants to be haunted by their enemies, please step forward.


I thought so.

And.

I thought not.

And. I believe I heard a scurrying of unbelievable proportions of ghosts and goblins heading for the hills, bumping into walls, shouts of OMG, lemme outta here.


Running around in circles.

Is.

Running around in circles.

A dizzying activity of never-ending repetition.


Of the constant state of purgatorial revenge. Purgatorial avenge.

Self-evident.

Self-referent.

Self-ish.

Self-described.


Take your pick.

Take your vengeance.

Pick your poison?

Revenge?

Avenge?


When you avenge someone, you are inflicting harm or humiliation on someone for a harm and humiliation they caused. In the eyes of the person doing the avenging, they are punishing someone for a wrong they are thought to have done.(dt)


Isn’t that called: Betrayal?

Anyway.


Revenge. On the other hand is an act of retaliating for a prior insult or wrong, the desire to enact vengeance, or something done in vengeance.


Boy oh boy, this life stuff is complicated stuff.


Can’t we all just get along?


In the land of Purgation or any where?

Please🙏🏻


The problem=the punishment=the possibility of restoration.


That is a good thing.

Unless, of course the agenda does not = restoration.

Returning something to its original condition by repairing it, cleaning it.


Get it?

I have plans on moving upward. Way, way upward. Come join me!!


We are on this earth for 50, 60, 70, 80 years. Along the way we all perform human acts that may go on to haunt our lives and the lives of those close to us forever. Staying in the land of Purgation, is a guarantee we will be assured not to change.


Keeping an impossible tight reign on the loves and beloved in our lives becomes the dance. We either dance up. Or. We dance down.

We may use people along the way, insidiously even. Egotistically believe we have a right to do this. Our wants and desires cross over one another in an egotistical facade of epic “kid yourself” mentalities.


Kidding only yourself.


Determine a path.


Rebuild.Reconcile.Rehabilitation. Rejuvenation. Remake. Remodel.


The opposite path is destruction.

Pick your poison.


Believing we are so right, so correct is a lesson in futility. Hauntingly so. A pile on of un-relenting self-ishness. In the world of being right.


If we realize this. We have the opportunity to lift ourselves


Up.


Out of the purgatorial holding pattern in an attempt of never-ending placation. With no intention, no motivation to leave any one, any soul in the dust. Of our fire-branded existence.


Only the extended hand to bring them up and out of the purgatory that holds them to the fire of their patterns and behaviors-however righteous they may believe they may be. And whatever tactics and behind the scenes hacking skills of being one step ahead of the game.


Revenge is a dish best served cold. This is most likely a good thing when the fire of life will not extinguish the invisibility of the ghosts and goblins circling round our front doors. And the forefronts of our ‘noggins.


Better fasten our seatbelts. The kids will come a knocking in a few days with the expectations of a kid. Fill my bag with candy. Now. I dressed up for this solicitation of sugary bars and treats……


leave me empty, and I will have no other option than to most assuredly, “trick” you.


Please and Thank you.


My costume, you ask?

Is a younger version of my adult version.


Scary and Frightening at the same time.


Hell bound? Hopefully not.

Shoot for the stars?

Definitely.


If beauty is an honest to goodness aspiration, purgatory is only the stepping stone, the temporary stop, the place of re-group.


Launch and go!

Happy Halloween.

May I recommend always continue to watch your own back😉

And.

Don’t look back

Don’t ever look back.😃













October 26, 2023 23:16

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