Sentimentality

[Reciprocality]

What are the problems with sentimentality? What is it? It is very hard to conceive of a very general tendency as a problem to solve, but can it be done?

 

How weak would we be without it when it is needed, assuming that it is needed when it visits us?

Does it take a lot of strength to endure being that weakened without resolving to some self-pity?

 

When we are out and about observing and reflecting, or generally feel just good, do we need any narrative then? In the case that sentimentality is just the self-pitying narrative we require when we become too observant of ourself in relation to how we wish to be or possess of things, perhaps accompanying the realisation that we will never possess even the means to achieve it, an oscillating tragedy, do we see ourself in this light when it happens, or do we need to wait?

 

I talk about we, instead of either you or me, because humans are virtually identical and I observe again and again in us a resolve to some form of self-pity and accompanying narrative.