Currently Gold By Ryan Adams see related

I spoke with the Incredible Hulk yesterday through text message.

"I don't feel anything anymore. Does that make sense?"

"More than you know!"

"All the stuff I do, or what people react to is not something I even care about anymore."

The truth is we all do this in one way or another. We numb things so we do not have to feel them. We either fight or fly. Therefore some who get angry because if they are angry or fighting, they don't have to feel pain. They've numbed it.

There are others of us who can block it from our hearts and minds. We can literally pretend it does not exist. Both are equally numb.

I am the latter. My friend: the former. Both numb the pain so we do not have to feel pain. The problem is that both hurt those who are closest to us.

One hurts people with his anger. The other hurts people with his lacking emotional presence. When we numb in either way, we hurt those around us.

"Yeah, and I just keep people at a distance."

Of course! If they get close, they may hurt you, and if they do, you will try to numb the pain of that hurt by blowing up. Then that hurts them, and you don't WANT to hurt them. So it makes sense to keep them at a distance so it never comes to that.

Bruce Banner escapes to a remote area in order to keep himself away from people who may hurt him and enflame his anger. It is simply safer that way. He does not wish to hurt anyone, but he knows what is capable of becoming. So he isolates and distances himself from people...from the possibility of love and relationship.

With relationship comes the possibility of hurt.

But the great story behind the badass special effects is watching Bruce Banner learn to love again; watching him learn to control the anger in order to feel other things as opposed to numbing and isolating.