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What Are You Listening To?
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Lanny
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- Type 2
I haven’t posted on here in quite a while!
I’m currently in the “trying to distract myself” stage of grief as I got the news on Monday that my dad in HK has had a bad fall, unconscious, in a coma & the family are flying back to see him before he passes!
I made the hard choice of not going as I’ve experienced on my deathbed journey for mum in 2015 the cold temperatures that high up on the plane is very painful for my neuropathy! I wasn’t diagnosed until 2017 but, realised afterwards I already had it in 2015 on the planes there & back also, less severely that whole summer with the constant air conditioning to make the heat bearable: my legs were numb with cold that summer; return flight was the most painful plane journey I’ve ever had in my life!
I was in shock these last few days & starting to come out of it now & in the “distraction” phase: after losing mum in 2015 & my sister in 2018 I understand better how I, in italics, deal with grief; it’s not such a big shock this time & it’s faster & easier going through the stages, I hope, until I can cry, heal & accept! I was stuck in the anger phase not being to cry for a long time with mum: not reached the anger phase yet this time; but, dad is still here & it’ll hit me later!
While my family are dropping everything to arrange flights etc. I’m trying to distract myself!
I’ve tried posting songs, & music, from the Chinese dramas I watch before on this thread to a lukewarm reception, at best!
I’m trying again to post a VERY different video of the traditional English folk song of “Greensleeves” from China’s flagship drama shown in 2019, filtered through & now a massive hit globally outside China, “Arsenal Military Academy” marking the 70th anniversary of the PROC. All Chinese dramas are censored & this one was the most severe censorship I’ve ever seen given the subject matters: the army, politics, patriotism & cross dressing!
“Greensleeves” the tune played on the gramophone when they danced to it:-
And the love Ballard duet sung by the female & male leading actors “Enter a Dream”:-
None the less: when chemistry works; it still shows through any censorship! There’s not one single scene of a kiss & it’s almost all comedy but, the on screen chemistry between the two is incredible!
Marilyn Monroe did it through Hollywood’s censorship era before age certificates came into being!
I’m currently in the “trying to distract myself” stage of grief as I got the news on Monday that my dad in HK has had a bad fall, unconscious, in a coma & the family are flying back to see him before he passes!
I made the hard choice of not going as I’ve experienced on my deathbed journey for mum in 2015 the cold temperatures that high up on the plane is very painful for my neuropathy! I wasn’t diagnosed until 2017 but, realised afterwards I already had it in 2015 on the planes there & back also, less severely that whole summer with the constant air conditioning to make the heat bearable: my legs were numb with cold that summer; return flight was the most painful plane journey I’ve ever had in my life!
I was in shock these last few days & starting to come out of it now & in the “distraction” phase: after losing mum in 2015 & my sister in 2018 I understand better how I, in italics, deal with grief; it’s not such a big shock this time & it’s faster & easier going through the stages, I hope, until I can cry, heal & accept! I was stuck in the anger phase not being to cry for a long time with mum: not reached the anger phase yet this time; but, dad is still here & it’ll hit me later!
While my family are dropping everything to arrange flights etc. I’m trying to distract myself!
I’ve tried posting songs, & music, from the Chinese dramas I watch before on this thread to a lukewarm reception, at best!
I’m trying again to post a VERY different video of the traditional English folk song of “Greensleeves” from China’s flagship drama shown in 2019, filtered through & now a massive hit globally outside China, “Arsenal Military Academy” marking the 70th anniversary of the PROC. All Chinese dramas are censored & this one was the most severe censorship I’ve ever seen given the subject matters: the army, politics, patriotism & cross dressing!
“Greensleeves” the tune played on the gramophone when they danced to it:-
And the love Ballard duet sung by the female & male leading actors “Enter a Dream”:-
None the less: when chemistry works; it still shows through any censorship! There’s not one single scene of a kiss & it’s almost all comedy but, the on screen chemistry between the two is incredible!
Marilyn Monroe did it through Hollywood’s censorship era before age certificates came into being!
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Seabreeze
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Lanny
Sorry to hear about your father and that you are unable to travel.
Grief takes its own form.