" If you give everything, how can people grow?.. I mean how can they get things for themselves" Naila Opiangah
Miz: Words and pictures
Musings in a mad world.
Saturday, 3 October 2026
Friday, 2 October 2026
All scenes to be inserted, have been inserted.
grok interpret this dream: Being chased through a variety of building, gardens, places, natural settings by a mad assasin/assailant. At one point almost get away, with my friend, who stops to order a pizza, we cant wait for the order, as the assailant, is following us again, we dive through a window, to run, and almost get away, until I decide I have had enough, I get angry, turn and charge towards to the assailant, who when I get close enough, I find has tranformed beyond whatever is afflicting him, and is now just a normal guy who has been chasing us, because he wants to join our group.
- Frustration with people (or parts of yourself) who do not share the same urgency.
- The way ordinary needs or social rituals can feel like liabilities when stress is high.
- A mild irritation that even allies can slow escape.
- Something (or someone) you have been treating as a threat, stressor, or antagonist may actually be seeking affiliation, understanding, or a place in your circle. The fear may be disproportionate to the actual intention.
- An internal conflict or rejected part of yourself (the “shadow” in Jungian language) that has been hounding you wants integration rather than destruction. Once faced, it becomes ordinary and usable.
- You may be ready to stop running from a pressure (deadline, conversation, decision, emotion) that feels relentless. Confronting it could reframe it from enemy to something that can be brought inside the group (accepted, negotiated with, or even collaborated with).
- Mild irritation with friends or companions who “stop for pizza” while you feel urgency—suggesting a need for clearer shared priorities or for accepting that not everyone operates at the same intensity.
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Scene addition/insertions week: slow boil
If you are not sufficiently aggressive, you will be treated like shit. Different contexts and domains dress up that aggression differently. It can be raw displays of physical violence, wittiness and humour, formal intellectual domination - any number of things - but the theme is always clear regardless of culture, class and context. Are you strong? How does it look when you bear your teeth? Can you inspire fear in the hearts of others? Can you make the tough decisions under pressure when the situation calls for it? What is the essence of the stuff you are made from? Will you crumble, or push through? What strength do you possess that means when I look at you I should respect you? Show me your force of being, your intensity, your soul - wear your darkness - show me your power.
Monday, 21 September 2026
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Thursday, 17 September 2026
Stupid grin on his face.
Some relationships don’t need to end. They need to transition. And transition is not punishment. Moving someone from friend to acquaintance doesn’t diminish their value as a person. It simply acknowledges the limits of what the relationship can realistically hold.