There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. (One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It’s rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.) Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste. A sensibility is almost, but not quite, ineffable. Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer a sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.
Reminder that, especially if you're pretty sensitive, when you are surrounded by many people, noises, smells, strong or flashing lights, you're tired or haven't slept well, it may become easier for you to get overwhelmed, anxious and experience burnouts.
Be gentle with yourself and try to find time to recover in your safe place, maybe practice a little bit of meditation and take a nap.
Do whatever that makes you tranquil and feel comforted like staying in a more isolated place for a little, touching soft fabrics, holding plushies, closing your eyes to rest them, smelling comfortable smells, breathing slowly. Take your time.
I’m oversensitive. That’s the right word. I’m so sensitive that I overcompensate by being nasty about it to myself, like some animal goaded to the edge. And this contradictory emotion raging inside my body makes my whole sense of self crumble … My mood plunges, and the mental balance I’d carefully built up to that point completely collapses.
Baek Sehee, tr. by Anton Hur, from I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
One has to have one of those mythical Freudian crises where everything represents something.
Though the photo has some cultural significance in terms of exposing children to weapons. Whose sole purpose is to kill others. That might resonate with some people in terms of the number deaths of children by gun violence. Still, removing images that trigger negative emotions would be, well, the end of visual arts.