MELISSALAND

Every human is a scale set to measure the pleasure or pain other humans inflict on us. Each act of pleasure or pain is a pebble placed on this scale. But the scale is out of balance. Most people need more pleasure than pain, others the reverse, to keep the scale in balance. Or perhaps it’s just that pain weighs more than pleasure for most people, and for a few, the reverse. When the scale is too far out of balance for too long, the pebbles are removed, and the scale reverts to neutral. Or rather, it attempts to, because the very act of measuring these weights distorts the calibration, and we constantly drift, never really knowing true measurement, but trying anyway.

(via: constant siege)