unlived life, n.All

The Unlived life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably — no wall keeps out its stifling atmosphere.

The Unlived life (n.) runs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠away in fantasies when a person is still bound to the mother — acted out by a hero who has the courage so sadly lacking to the conscious mind.

The Unlived life (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the strongest effect on the child: the part the parents always shirked by means of a pious lie sows the most virulent germs.

The Unlived life (n.) gets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠thrust down the children's throats by parents who live only for them — offered as their "best", the very things they most neglected in themselves, so the children are goaded to achieve their parents' most dismal failures.

The Unlived life (n.) falls ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into the unconscious when rationalism walls man into the short span between birth and death and makes him feel a haphazard creature — people live as though walking in shoes too small for them.

The Unlived life (n.) passes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to the children in substitute form: excessively moral parents have unmoral children, and a wastrel father a son of morbid ambition.