Facebook flog - Jan 28 2014

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Link: Jan 28 2014, 12:00
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Because it's a theme this week:

"Destroy your personal demons, use their corpses as fuel to light your way."
Laurell K. Hamilton

Comments

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

Same here. I think, for me anyway, it's because she presents them as this external thing. Sher personifies an issue someone is struggling with to the point that it isn't about the individual understanding why they engage in unhealthy behavior (I'm thinking of other common things called 'personal demons' like alcoholism) or why they struggle with something from their past, and then working to change their thinking and their behaviors in order to deal with those effects. No, it's this demon that is attacking you personally, and you need to fight it.

Determination to overcome is one thing, but this aggressive need to battle something that is, despite not being good for you, a part of who you are, just rubs me the wrong way.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

Plus she keeps talking like you can destroy your personal demons, and then they're just gone. That's not how it works.