A movie that was designed to appeal to a feeling like nostalgia in the first place would be revisited by people seeking to feel nostalgic for that experience, in the pursuit of an ever-receding vision of a mythic past.
Melville used it for Stubb's leisurely death blow — "carefully churning and churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold watch that the whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of breaking ere he could hook it out".
Whether we are seeking to feel happy, connected, understood, change bad habits into better ones, have a healthy brain as we age, and fulfill our full potential or if we are solving problems like stress, anxiety, loneliness, sadness, or depression, we will have a technology to support us.
But to the true reader - the one seeking to feel pleasure and pain, as they come, as in life itself - I believe, he was most gentle.
In a way, films like 12 Years a Slave, even with its horror and brutality, serve as a comfort to white people seeking to feel a distance between the monster that is racism and the life they lead in 2013.
The caretaker does it by giving themselves up to take care of the taker, hoping the taker will then give them the love they are seeking to feel okay about themselves.
Get good at Drop 7. We should always seek to feel more clever.
Too much of how we seek to feel good comes from outside approval and from obtaining the right social markers of success – a husband, a boyfriend, a handbag.
I seek to feel my fear instead, much like I would feel the warm water running over my body in the shower.
It's natural for the ego to seek to feel better instead of viewing this as an opportunity to try and find another way to connect.
And because of this, we might not have to spend as much time thrill-seeking to feel content.
