Haven’t been posting here for 13 days. Firstly, I didn’t feel to post anything here. Secondly, I have a cold lasting for 8 days yet.
Now I have something to share. As I said above, I started GLM being inspired by LOTR’s Samwise Gamgee. Now I’d add Phoenix into the same line as GLM, for the synergy of GLM and Phoenix. And yes, I’m listening GLM and Phoenix the same day and the custom - on the other day.
As for GLM and Phoenix, I finished watching LOTR trilogy by Peter Jackson today, and I was particularly affected by scenes in which characters did actions that required masculinity (valor, discipline, strong character and will, bravery, kindness and mercifulness, selflessness, and honor) . When watching these scenes, I felt a strange feeling as if these scenes were pointing to these mentioned qualities in me, not necessarily in the sense that I have them, but in the sense that I must necessarily possess them, and therefore these scenes were both frightening to me - because they opened the curtain of my character and soul (I lack these qualities and thus I envied the characters) - and inspiring. I really love Sam’s words in Osgiliath: “Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.”. I’ve loved Lord of the Rings before, but this time I loved it anew, for I saw it from a whole new angle, and I guess I found the essence that Tolkien put into the story - the story of people leaving their ordinary lives, finding and developing their best traits and qualities within, going through hardships, doing things they’ve never done before or even imagined of, and making sacrifices without fear of pain or death, all for the sake of their loved ones, homes and world at large. If I ever was asked to describe LOTR by one SubClub product, I would spell three letters: G, L and M.
I really hope that someday I, too, will embody all the good that the characters in Lord of the Rings embodied - masculinity.
I dedicate those endemic feelings to Phoenix and GLM, especially to New Subliminal Experience of Phoenix.