Maiveeta wrote:...the four moods of a stalker...ruthless cunning patience and sweetness...are not for stalking another but for stalking self. One must treat themselves with ruthlessness...be willing to see all of your self...
Good post Maive, yet I'd like to point something out that I find interesting in your writing style. Why mention this? Because we all do it
Keep in mind that obviously YOU are writing this.
You begin, "not stalking another but for stalking self". At least in my mind, with an intro like this, I think this post is going to be in regards to 'you' and stalking Yourself. This is a personal thread and topic for You.
Then you say, "One must treat themselves..." This seems to be a transitional sentence. You've moved away from 'stalking yourself' to a now vague generality of 'anyone.'
The rest of the post then continues on with, "be willing to see all of Your self..." Now you've moved further away from Yourself, further past 'anyone,' and now it's about Them, the other person you're writing to. "You need to do this or that..."
Now obviously this is only one perception of what you've written. What you probably meant to convey was, that yes, stalking is about stalking the self, so take responsibility and stalk Yourself, each and every one of us.
Once again, this is your own personal thread, like an on-line diary, so you're really only writing to yourself. The issue comes to play though when we write like this to others in more conversational threads.
No one likes to be lectured or prescribed behavior, even if the Buddha had written it himself
Again, I don't see you doing this, yet in reading your first couple of lines....they just provided a great example
The fun part of all of this are the re-actions these posts receive, regardless of the author or recipient. Your post was about stalking; good stalkers know how to write and manipulate words. Good stalkers often times are the butt of their own jokes, making theselves the fool. Most often (in public) 'they' relate to the audience by using the word 'we'. "We often do this or that...." The true stalker understand this and always gets the 'buy in' from the readers, unlike the self-proclaimed douche bags who want to seperate...I'm up here, you're down there. We've seen it all before.
Just a few thoughts on a right fine Sunday morning
Kris