The Concept
of a Broken Rib
You know if
and when you broke a leg. And in every instance of not breaking it, you would
never have said: “It feels like I broke a leg.”
The other
day, however, two people on two occasions in no way related to each other
uttered sincerely: “It feels like I broke a rib.” One of the aforementioned was
me. I never broke a rib, or any other bone. Neither did the other person. Yet
the concept seems strangely familiar and clear cut. And applicable when clearly
not applicable.
I would not
feel the difference between a severe cold and a mild pneumonia, even though I
certainly experienced the former and probably the latter, too. The concept is
fairly unfamiliar, not as distinct and clear as a broken leg, or the imaginary
broken rib. What happens in our brains when we feel like having broken a rib, whilst
evidently untrue?
It seems to
be a rare form of infantile reality, where a primal creativity meets an ignorance
regarding contradiction. A reality that adult people nevertheless can relate
to. Now how could we use the concept of a broken rib to foster our creative
writing?
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