Musings – The Introverted Tree

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Death of the hero?

By: theintrovertedtree 15th Mar 2023

Inner search, Musings, Waiting and HereDeath of the ego, Death of the hero, Ego consciousness, Second half of life, Soul searching5 Comments

Am I to die, then? – asked the ego. I, the ego, the intelligent mind who carried myself around, walking the unfulfilled path. Am I the only source of suffering? I can see my own spiral thoughts. The categorisation of the classification… Every thought is analysed, conceptualised, labelled and stored. And that is who I…

The Narrator (II/III)

By: theintrovertedtree 2nd Mar 2023

Musings, Waiting and HereSoul searching, Writing2 Comments

(Continues from here) The narrator sits and stares into the darkness. The characters have stopped moving. He picks them up and looks at them as he holds them in his hand. He puts them back on the floor. They looked so alive… more alive than he himself. And yet, here he is. Alive. Sitting. He…

The Narrator (I/III)

By: theintrovertedtree 21st Feb 20232nd Mar 2023

Inner search, Musings, Waiting and HereSoul searching, Waiting and Here, Writing2 Comments

I think about those writers today. Not about their characters, but as the voice-over, the narrator recounting the inexorable succession of events. I wonder if the narrator suffers more anguish than the characters. If he knows what is going to happen, if he feels he cannot feel as his characters do. If deep down he…