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Date Posted: 03:57:05 08/24/02 Sat
Author: Gray
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Subject: Re: Jaded or Obsessed?
In reply to: Fenira 's message, "Re: Jaded or Obsessed?" on 22:24:38 08/23/02 Fri

Exactly. What I meant by jaded was in regard to (being jaded about) those things one would be obsessed with... ...a loss of interest, no longer driven...

Yes, it does not coincide with depression, as one can be both depressed and obsessed... Driven, yet still morose, fatalistic. Jaded, then, being when the drive even for those things is gone, they (those things or people or whatever...)no longer possess any intrinsic value, any potential to capture even sullen motivation.

I admit taking license with the word "jaded" in the poem, but, from my perspective, that's the word that made it unique, a new consideration... (Isn't "not worth anything anymore" a jaded type response? The cause may not be one of saturation, necessarily, but the value-system resulting, isn't it indistiguishable? )

The poem was not meant to be particularly about personality disorders or the like, clinically diagnosed or otherwise... but about living... motivation to continue.

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-Gray

jad·ed
adj.

1. Worn out; wearied: “My father's
words had left me jaded and
depressed” (William Styron).

2. Dulled by surfeit; sated: “the
sickeningly sweet life of the
amoral, jaded, bored upper
classes” (John Simon).

3. Cynically or pretentiously
callous.

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  • fenira -- Avy, 05:22:17 08/24/02 Sat
  • Re: fenira -- Gray, 15:15:54 08/24/02 Sat
  • Re: fenira -- Fenira, 17:47:11 08/24/02 Sat
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