I had come across a saying--the exact quote I had forgotten--that went like this: Contempt is the extroversion (outward expression) of one's ineptitude.
Why do some people manage without fail to draw out my feeling of ineptitude, which I then repurpose as contempt?
Menutup aib. Like a lid over my shame. Bagai tudung menutup aib.
"Janganlah tunjuk kemaluan." 献丑。
Hmm, here we see the difference between shame and guilt. Shame is subject to probing. Shame posits a seer. Shame posits being seen. However, guilt inhabits the subject with no need of another subject's potential knowledge. Guilt is being in itself. Can one cover guilt, except to not feel it? Yet one may shame, while still feel shame.
Hmm.
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