I pretty rarely wrestle with people (or otherwise have such close physical
contact), so if someone I have a crush on is literally sitting on top of me
pinning me on my back, I have trouble staying calm. (I’m thinking of a
particular time this happened to me. I felt about like Taylor does in your
Worm quote.)
I practice jujitsu, an art which involves a lot of close physical contact. At times I’ve worked with people I find attractive, but the mindset’s different enough that I don’t have those sorts of intrusive thoughts during practice. It takes time to develop that mindset, though—beginning students are often uncomfortable.
Haven’t read Worm, though, so I’m not sure how applicable that would be.
Interesting. Does this.… urgency ever turn out to be useful? I’m assuming that at the worst it’s not distracting enough to justify taking the time to prevent it.
(In case I was not clear, I was talking about a more general thingy than being sat upon. Pretty much all of 6.3 for example.)
I’d say it ranges from enjoyable through
distracting-but-pleasant to just distracting, but it’s never
bad enough to noticeably affect my ability to get stuff
done. Maybe it sometimes was in my teens and twenties, but
I haven’t been able to remember a clear example. Arguably
one example would be my wrestling anecdote. That feeling
was sudden enough (my friend “attacked” me without warning)
and intense enough to make me not able to fight back very
well. Long story, but this meant that the playfight didn’t
last as long as I would have liked it to.
I pretty rarely wrestle with people (or otherwise have such close physical contact), so if someone I have a crush on is literally sitting on top of me pinning me on my back, I have trouble staying calm. (I’m thinking of a particular time this happened to me. I felt about like Taylor does in your Worm quote.)
I practice jujitsu, an art which involves a lot of close physical contact. At times I’ve worked with people I find attractive, but the mindset’s different enough that I don’t have those sorts of intrusive thoughts during practice. It takes time to develop that mindset, though—beginning students are often uncomfortable.
Haven’t read Worm, though, so I’m not sure how applicable that would be.
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(Taylor is new to this sort of training during the scene in question.)
Interesting. Does this.… urgency ever turn out to be useful? I’m assuming that at the worst it’s not distracting enough to justify taking the time to prevent it.
(In case I was not clear, I was talking about a more general thingy than being sat upon. Pretty much all of 6.3 for example.)
I’d say it ranges from enjoyable through distracting-but-pleasant to just distracting, but it’s never bad enough to noticeably affect my ability to get stuff done. Maybe it sometimes was in my teens and twenties, but I haven’t been able to remember a clear example. Arguably one example would be my wrestling anecdote. That feeling was sudden enough (my friend “attacked” me without warning) and intense enough to make me not able to fight back very well. Long story, but this meant that the playfight didn’t last as long as I would have liked it to.