If you never use or think the phrase, “broken heart,” you may not be a terminal case.
In its constant replay of repetitive memories, the mind has obviously taken a lesson in efficiency from television dramas in their liberal use of flashbacks. Scenes and dialogue already paid for; what is cheaper than living in the past.
How to undertake The Investigation:
Start at the top and work your way outward in all directions.
The way to tell you are common is: if when someone by way of perfunctory greeting rhetorically asks, “How’s it going,” you tell them.
The few, in their mental forest, allow no one to roll their logs, nor do they roll those of others.(Leave-alone – be free-alone – is the only way can be done.)
One guy’s only response to any critical observation made about him personally is: “Pitiful, huh.”
Anything that must either exist or not exist – does neither.
J.