As a matter of F | EP02. Displaying Sadness

Sadness is painful and lonely.

As much as we are individually unique, so is our sadness. No one knows the troubles we had, so here loneliness sneaks in and seeks for the urge to be found and to be seen.

In the midst of digital gild age, we witness the countless souls through the lens of social media and this show is no exception. We live in the most pain-aware generation ever in human history. We both condemn and consume it. We consume it, yet we produce our own displayed depressions. The border is gray; we might fall into the trap of overdosing the exhibition of our own pain, sink deeper into it, or even masturbate our sadness while watching a pain-porn.

Nevertheless, we may still end up making a room of our own, perhaps the kind Virginia Woolf once wrote about in A Room of One's Own, and James Baldwin wrote in Giovanni's Room. Or simply we need something of our own.

This episode is about approaching exhibition of sadness on social media as a way of creating such a room for ourselves.

Baldwin said this famous line, "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

This quote guides us toward understanding why we might feel the need to build a personal, safe room where our F-ranged sentiments can be displayed and shared. In that room, we invite guests with courage against shame, holding onto the hope in which loneliness will find no corner to settle in.