52 Card Project 2022: Week 21: Rumination
May. 25th, 2022 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrThis collage attempts to depict a mental state: rumination - the state of turning thoughts over and over in the mind. The word is derived from the class of animals known as "ruminants," of the suborder Ruminantia: cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds such as domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, etc.
Of course, it would be nice if one could dwell on wonderful things that makes one happy. That's not the way it usually works for me.
In my experience, it's about the state of mind you get into when you can't stop yourself from dwelling on all the ways in which you are the absolute worst. All the things you have to do and haven't done, all the people you've hurt or offended or annoyed. All the foolish, all the clueless, all the inept, all the embarrassing. Over and over again. Chewing the cud, as it were.
It's tied to depression, naturally.
Minds are annoying, occasionally. Mine certainly is right now. (But I rather like this collage.)
Image description: A sketchified woman (Peg) holds her hand to her temple in the lower right. She looks sad and preoccupied. Above and behind her arises a chaotic thought cloud, indicated by disorganized lines and symbols. A black and white cow stands to her side, eyeing her quizzically.
Rumination
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Of course, it would be nice if one could dwell on wonderful things that makes one happy. That's not the way it usually works for me.
In my experience, it's about the state of mind you get into when you can't stop yourself from dwelling on all the ways in which you are the absolute worst. All the things you have to do and haven't done, all the people you've hurt or offended or annoyed. All the foolish, all the clueless, all the inept, all the embarrassing. Over and over again. Chewing the cud, as it were.
It's tied to depression, naturally.
Minds are annoying, occasionally. Mine certainly is right now. (But I rather like this collage.)
Image description: A sketchified woman (Peg) holds her hand to her temple in the lower right. She looks sad and preoccupied. Above and behind her arises a chaotic thought cloud, indicated by disorganized lines and symbols. A black and white cow stands to her side, eyeing her quizzically.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 gallery.