Sick #4
By Mary Hannington
Vagabond Guru was once one of the most constant and prolific sportswriters on the planet... well, okay sometimes he went off the deep end, but he ALWAYS came back? Right?
It is my sincere wish and one that I'm sure that you share with me that he come back to us whole and full of that great insight of his.
Since I have been examining my own psyche these days and like Guru I have tormenters (good and bad) of my own that keep me from doing what I wish. I've noticed that Freud's death instinct applies to me. Freud divided the Id into two categories. "Life Instincts" (Eros) - Food/Sex and "Death Instincts" (Thanatos) - the wish to end the struggle for happiness, essentially the desire to escape from reality. Lately, there hasn't been much of a chance for indulgence - no time for food (I can't even count the skipped lunches over the past few months) and sex? What's that?
So I start looking for peace, for some escape, the more I am thwarted the angrier I get - it's classic "Death Instinct".
Armed with this knowledge we have concocted a little experiment on our beloved Guru.
We're figuring if we can keep him in a state of aggression for longer periods of time that eventually he'll go all haywire and concentrate more on the food, the sex and oh yeah, the SPORTS!
Me? I'll just go back to Yoga.
But before I do... the Facebook hackers have taken over a lot of my friend's profiles and my In Box is again full of links to "Fuck Buddy" sites, maybe I'll have just a little peak (freudian slip) er peek...
