{"id":40220,"date":"2012-02-08T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40220"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:32:02","slug":"to-truly-feel-despair-you-have-to-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40220","title":{"rendered":"To Truly Feel Despair, You Have To Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s impossible to really feel down unless you physically compress. If you allow your head to retreat into your torso and your back to collapse in, then you can truly access despair.<\/p>\n<p>If you stay tall and poised, it&#8217;s impossible to feel despair.<\/p>\n<p>Every emotion is only possible with a certain alignment of the body. A body that takes its full space in the world is not going to feel depressed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<strong style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">After being hailed as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2012\/02\/04\/brady-manning-vie-to-prove-whos-the-elite-qb-now\/\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #266ec4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Brady, Manning Vie To Prove Who\u2019s The \u2018Elite\u2019 QB\u00a0Now\">perhaps the greatest quarterback of the current era<\/a>, you get your team all the way to the Super Bowl only to ultimately fall short on a desperation Hail Mary throw&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2012\/02\/05\/giants-win-super-bowl-xlvi-21-17\/\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;\">After losing the game, your gorgeous, gazillionaire, super model wife&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2012\/02\/08\/giants-jacobs-gisele-needs-to-stay-cute-and-shut-up\/\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #266ec4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Giants\u2019 Jacobs: Gisele Needs To \u2018Stay Cute And Shut\u00a0Up\u2019\">throws the rest of your team under the bus<\/a>&nbsp;for the loss.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The picture of you sitting with your hands between your legs, humbled after the epic loss,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2011\/12\/21\/nina-in-new-york-2011s-top-5-internet-memes-i-will-never-understand\/\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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And while many New Yorkers&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2012\/02\/07\/bc-morning-show-al-dukes-performs-we-beat-tom-brady\/\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #266ec4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"B&amp;C Morning Show: Al Dukes Performs \u2018We Beat Tom\u00a0Brady\u2019\">will likely mutter<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cGood\u201d when thinking about that, it seems like the hits are just going to keep on coming for the superstar athlete.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n\u201cBradying\u201d seems to be the latest meme to hit the internet. 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