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6One of my all time favourite directors David Lynch passed away which deeply saddened me to hear. He understood life in a way that almost seems unexplainable and alien but he conveyed powerful emotions and story through his work that it's mark can be felt everywhere in media that people aren't aware of. You could tell he was an artist through and through.
A lot of his work would disturb or cross taboos that people shy away from and are afraid of but he challenged those uneasy feelings head on and they would transform from that deep fear and anxiety felt into something beautiful.
It's only when someone is gone that you fully reflect on all the love and joy they brought to you in a world wrought in horrors and attrocities. Throughout 2020 I became really acustomed and attached to his films and his daily weather reports in which he would plainly speak about the weather in LA and then a thought he had that day but more importantly he wished for beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way. You'd think why should I care about what weather it is in LA, I've no interest or will be affected by it but he made you listen despite the monotony of a typical weather forecast for what other words he had to say. His intention was always brightening others lifes.
Whenever someone passes we try to internalize it and contemplate on what that persons life was and the hardships they go through but ulitmately it ends up sounding like how they imprinted on you and that's exactly the impact a loss leaves. It feels like something you dearly love is ripped out of you and gone in the wind to never be found again. The only other celebrity death that effected me profoundly was Norm Mac Donald who was the opposite of David Lynch in a lot of ways. He had no time for the sentimental and hid a lot of his pains so he could entertain a world that by default was sad and miserable. I am a strong believer in that belief that just because the world can be cruel does not mean you need to add to it and these two embodied that through and through. Another thing about loss and one I find the most humorous is in Norm's "based on a true story, a memoir" about a funeral he attended and how he wrote a fancy eulogy before ripping it up and speaking from the "heart" only to make the whole thing about how dysmal and miserable the whole ordeal was before realising he was making it about himself and saying "Give me that ripped part of my good speech I need it" before a lady had poured black coffee on it. Through dark topics and humour you'll start to see the crack of light that is life hung between the dark corners encroaching from either side before you were born and after.
They saw their role as entertainers in their own way and never burdened you with their problems and only put out art to make you a little less sad without being condescending.
In Todays world that's become fully connected through the inseperable role of Tech, misery is easily shared and consumed.
There's almost an expectation to perform to the tune of it and wallow in feelings of inadequacy, uselessness and hopelessness. It's become routine to feel depressed and become your ailments instead of being a person who has an ailment. The victims become only victims and nothing more. Opinions are touted as facts and the world argues over which facts are turer than others. There's little room for the positives in life and to live through all that and still deliver hope through all that is a burden shouldered by people who are truly strong.
A moment in Twin Peaks that I still bring with me into life is the idea of giving yourself a present, no matter what's happening, without any meaning except giving yourself a treat despite not earning it. Don't plan it, don't wait on it, give yourself a present. Through some real difficult and sad days that advice has gotten me through some of the worst moments of my life and I try to extend that to those who are having a rough time. Being alive is enough and I feel a lot of people believe they have to earn happiness when it's a state of being not a goal.
I had been doing a David Lynch impression for nearly two years on stream and he became a part of bringing joy to people for me and I don't feel comfortable with continuing to do one with his passing.
I thought I'd share these moments because it's my belief that laughter can alleviate the pain left behind by losing someone.
I had no intention to write a eulogy about David and I believe it too is subject to the afformentioned talking from the heart moment I described earlier. The thought that I had and it's a recurring one is to not become a victim of the circumstances of life, but to be yourself despite it.
Instead of leaving more sadness in the world, I think it's important to remember what made us smile in the first place.
Keep your eye on the donut and not the hole!
I hope you all have a great day!