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Mind/Body/Spirit
Perhaps this essay is metaphor. Sure, you can describe all of reality with math, but even the most esteem physicist fall back on metaphor when relating their visions. When other physicist debate, they use counter metaphors. “How absurd? That would mean my cat is alive and dead?!” Language is useful and important, but it is also, at the end of the day- just math. It is no more reality than the numbers we use to illustrate the mind or the music of spheres.
We can go deeper?
How to overcome depression | Duncan Trussell and Lex Fridman, linked below, offers a nice way to relate to depression. Like gravity, it sucks. As mass goes up, gravity increases, time slows. People entering depression tend to slow, every movement takes energy.
Those who succumb to suicide, they leave gaping blackholes in the collective unconscious that ripples out to everyone around that event. All trajectories and orbits are disrupted. Not just family and friends. The medics, the law enforcement, the clean up team, the morgue… This psychological loss is as tangible as physical injury.
There is a hole torn into the sky. Stars disappear behind the this emptiness, not tangible space/time, all light warps and frays around the tear.
